Hello, I'm Fayaz.

I built this site to chronicle my achievements in life (both for myself and others) — academic, professional, and personal — in order, with proof where I have it.

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Timeline

The arc, in order

Education, competition wins, and the roles that shaped how I build.

High School

Academic & Extracurricular

Member of the school quizzing team and athletics team (100m, 200m, and 4×100m relay).
Second-highest scorer in internal exams.
Reached the final 100 at a nationwide spelling bee competition.

University

Machine Learning Capstone

CNN-based cervical cancer detection

Applied convolutional neural networks to detect cervical cancer from pap smear images.
Built a working understanding of ML architectures that I still draw on today.

University

Competitive Programming & Academics

Best competitive programmer in my graduating year; represented the university at ICPC regionals in the 2018–19 season.
Took graduate-level mathematics courses during undergraduate studies.
Sole recipient of the top grade in a notoriously difficult Data Structures & Algorithms course — the only time relative grading produced a single top scorer in the program's history.

May – Jul 2019

Summer Analyst

Goldman Sachs

Contributed to the MOSAIC platform on the Goldman Sachs Liquidity Solutions Portal.
Implemented backend functionality to generate PDFs from dynamic tables displayed on a webpage.

Aug 2020 – Aug 2023

Software Engineer I → II

Cleartax · late-stage startup

Three years across multiple product teams — tally, desktop, reports, MAX TAX, forms, and recon.
Built frontends from scratch for 0→1 products and org-wide rewrites spanning 30+ enterprise reports as microfrontends.
Designed and implemented a custom data table to replace off-the-shelf solutions for niche enterprise use cases.

Aug 2023 – Present

Founding Engineer

Snowmountain.ai · first engineering hire

First engineering hire at an early-stage startup building products enabled by advances in LLMs.
Own the full-stack web application — Next.js, PostgreSQL, authentication, performance, and security.
Built a Chrome extension capable of agentic web actions: filling forms, clicking buttons, and navigating pages autonomously.

Beyond work

Things I do for fun

I tend to go deep on hobbies the same way I go deep on engineering — a few interests outside the job. I usually rotate through hobbies every few months. I like optimizing things and getting the most out of them - including hobbies.