Faris Aziz

Faris Aziz is an experienced engineer, international conference speaker, and workshop instructor specializing in React, Next.js, web architecture, and resilient system design. He has a deep passion for startups, having worked in early-stage companies ranging from founding teams to organizations scaling from 1 to 100 people. His expertise spans engineering leadership, building career ladders from scratch, and managing teams of over 10 engineers. As a front-end subject matter expert, Faris has contributed to creating systems used by millions of users worldwide. His work has ranged from building greenfield projects from the ground up to maintaining and scaling decade-old products. His experience covers industries like Connected TV, Fintech, SaaS, and Fitness, working with companies such as Smallpdf, Fiit, Discovery, GCN, Eurosport, and Navro (formerly Paytrix). Faris’s specialization lies in building user-centric, performant, and maintainable applications. He has a particular interest in observability and monitoring, ensuring that systems are not only robust but also easy to troubleshoot and optimize. His passion extends to sharing knowledge, organizing the Zurich.js meetup in Switzerland, and speaking at international conferences about web development, engineering leadership, and creating scalable systems. In his free time, Faris enjoys contributing to web development tools like Raycast and spending time contemplating life’s great questions, like why the build works on his machine but nowhere else.