My name is Mohsin Farooq and I like building shit.
I earned a Bachelors/Masters in the Computer Engineering from Rochester Institue of Technology (RIT). Since then I’ve worked as a software engineer at (Citi, Intel, Amazon, Square). I took a year off in 2023-2024 to work on personal projects ranging from building physical things like a hottub, cabinets, a shed, bathroom to creating tech that I thought was interesting (BetaShare, QuickAPI, VoiceOver).
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April 2020 - Sept 2023
Co-Architected, developed and was the tech lead for the Custom Attributes team that enabled third-party and first-party teams to add custom attributes across many of Square Offerings.
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December 2018 - April 2020
Helped implement and lead development efforts of a robotic arm workcell. Implemented generalized work APIs using now open-source IDL Smithy that could be reused across different robotic workcell types. Designed and implemented an orchestrator that used these APIs and work models to orchestrate multiple robotic workcells to automate a process. Mentored other engineers and conducted 20+ engineering interviews.
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Feburary 2018 - December 2018
Worked on the core team that launched the marketplace appstore to host third-party (3P) developed apps for Amazon 3P sellers. Designed and led a team of 4 engineers to implement seller facing features around managing seller-developer authorizations and applications, while taking into account and mitigating security threats.
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Aug 2015 - Feburary 2018
Designed and implemented an asynchronous workflow system for batch processing large amounts of data using EMR and displaying precomputed reports. Maintained and improved operations for a 140+ node Hadoop cluster we managed. Handled various critical customer facing issues while on-call. Led bottom-up initiatives around cost reduction. Mentored other engineers and interns.
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Aug 2015 - Feburary 2018
Defended Masters Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Juan Cockburn: A Switched System Identification Approach to Spindle Modeling: Thesis Link
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