Faris Aziz

Faris Aziz is a Staff Frontend Engineer, international conference speaker, and product-minded engineer specializing in React, Next.js, resilient web architecture, and payment and monetization systems. He has worked across startups, scale-ups, and global companies, growing from founding engineer to Staff Engineer and engineering leader. His work has supported products used by tens of millions of users and systems processing tens of millions in ARR across SaaS, Fintech, Connected TV, Fitness, and productivity tools. Faris co-founded ZurichJS, an award-winning JavaScript community in Switzerland, and is also active in the Stripe community as a Community Builder. He regularly speaks and teaches internationally on frontend architecture, performance, observability, developer experience, payments, and the human side of engineering. In his free time, Faris enjoys contributing to web development tools like Raycast and contemplating life’s great questions, like why the build works on his machine but nowhere else.