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Faris Aziz

Faris Aziz

Faris Aziz is a Staff Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, monetization systems, and resilient web architecture. He's led teams in early-stage startups and scaling companies, built career ladders from scratch, and shipped systems used by millions. His work spans greenfield builds and legacy refactors across Fintech, SaaS, Fitness, and Connected TV, with companies like Smallpdf, Fiit, Discovery, GCN, and Navro. He focuses on building performant, user-centric applications with solid observability and maintainability. Faris co-organizes ZurichJS, contributes to tools like Raycast, and spends time contemplating life's great questions, like why the build works on his machine but nowhere else.
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Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: A Frontend Engineer’s Journey
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
Upcoming
Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: A Frontend Engineer’s Journey
What do you do when your frontend performance crumbles, but you have zero control over the backend? This was the reality we faced while building a fintech payments dashboard. Massive payloads, strict compliance, and an unchangeable API were slowing operators down and wrecking workflows.In this talk, I’ll walk through our real-world quest to rescue the user experience without touching the backend. You’ll see how we profiled true bottlenecks, built a Backend-for-Frontend layer to reshape data for the UI, managed financial data caching strategies, and balanced performance against several constraints.Expect live demos, battle-tested patterns, and hard-earned lessons for shipping resilient, user-centric frontends, even when the backend isn’t on your side.
scalability
From Fragile to Future-Proof: Solving Web Monetization Chaos with Payment Systems That Scale
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
Upcoming
From Fragile to Future-Proof: Solving Web Monetization Chaos with Payment Systems That Scale
What happens when 'just integrate Stripe/Adyen/Revolut' isn't enough? As platforms grow, payments turn from a simple integration into a complex web of gateways, compliance, and strategy conflicts. This talk is for anyone who's hit scaling pain. I'll walk through the hard lessons from moving millions through fragmented systems, and show how treating payments as orchestration, not a feature, can unlock real growth. No fluff, just the realities of building monetization systems that scale.
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