Muhammad Faisal

About

Hi, it’s Faisal here, having around 14 years of solid experience working mainly on enterprise-level projects. I have been working mostly on the development of distributed systems, where I have to work across the whole stack including frontend, backend, infrastructure setup, CI/CD setup, etc. I believe that I am the best fit for Java-related roles like Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager.

Why I am a Good Fit?

🛠️ Agile Expertise

I am a seasoned Agile developer (Lead Delivery Engineer) as well as Scrum Master and very comfortable with the principle of iterative development.
I can easily keep the team focused on reaching the project’s goals because I am a delivery-oriented individual who understands both the sprint and the overarching objectives.
I am a proven technical leader who is able to inspire an engineering team, bring clarity to their work, and help drive them to execute to the best of their abilities.
I play an important role in the estimation and iteration planning meetings (IPMs) by finding out the dependencies, breaking out complex/bigger problems into smaller, more manageable problems, and making the stories testable and able to be played in parallel if possible. Also, ensure that the stories are testable in themselves.

🔑 Leadership and Decision-Making

My ability to delegate responsibility and effectively present ideas has allowed me to be very successful in what I do, resulting in a strong reputation for professionalism.
I have good decision-making, problem-solving, and implementation skills and am continuously looking for ways to improve engineering quality.
I’ll be happy to speak up as soon as I notice that the team is going off track.
I am always happy to take more responsibility whenever required and can step back as well to give a chance to other team members.
I am always open to collaborate and communicate with UX/QA/BA/Dev (any stakeholder) to discuss the requirements, solution, test scenarios, risks etc., which really helps to have everyone in the team on the same page.
I have strong negotiation skills and the proven ability to influence external partners, stakeholders, and customers to secure mutually beneficial outcomes.

💻 Engineering and Technical Skills

I have a proven track record of delivering “working” software rather than just software as part of each iteration/sprint.
I’ve been able to achieve this all the time by focusing on the quality of deliverable, i.e., by having enough automated tests in the form of unit, integration, performance, security as well as acceptance tests, hence code changes/refactoring/bug fixing can be done much quicker and with confidence.
Through TDD, I am able to think well about the system and can forecast future issues easily.
I am very much comfortable with CI (continuous integration) and CD (continuous delivery and deployment) principles.
I am more on the side of writing clean, simple, and readable code to avoid the need for documentation most of the time.
I think about how the reliability, scalability, and availability of the offered solutions can be enhanced, for example, mechanisms like proper time-outs, rate limiting, throttling, circuit breakers etc. can really help in such cases.
I am really strong in coaching and mentoring multidisciplinary teams in Agile’s best practices/techniques, as well as suggesting automation to increase productivity.

🤝 Collaboration and Team Dynamics

I am a collaborative team player, and lead a professional scrum team as part of a wider group of scrum masters working towards common goals within a large-scale programme.
I am an expert in balancing multiple priorities on large-scale, high-visibility projects and employing techniques to deal with ambiguity.
I have the ability to challenge and remove any unnecessary barriers to service delivery.
I am always open to collaborating with all team members and stakeholders to ensure that requirements, solutions, and risks are well understood and managed.

🌱 Professional Approach and Philosophy

I have been doing all of the above and more in my day-to-day life. More importantly, I do not follow these practices just because I am instructed to do so, rather I follow them because I can see the real value and importance of them.
I strongly believe that to get the real value out of anything, one should first understand the importance rather than blindly following (e.g., Mechanical Scrum vs. Professional Scrum), and then he/she can use that practice/principle with passion.

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