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Faris Aziz
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Measurable results

The numbers, with the story behind them.

Anyone can list stats. These are the results I'm proud of — across community, leadership, and product — each with the context, the approach, and what actually moved.

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Talks given

Across 22 countries.

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Yrs to JSNation Community of the Year

ZurichJS won Global Community of the Year (highest impact) at JSNation's OSS Awards, under two years after founding.

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Release Time

88% faster releases (multi-day to same-day): stabilized E2E selectors to cut flakiness, parallelized unit tests, better feature-flag management, and QA gates across dev, staging, RC, and production.

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New Indian Subs on UPI

On Smallpdf (tens of millions of monthly users), UPI carried ~83% of new Indian subscriptions within three months, reopening a market card-only checkout had closed.

Case studies

Three results, in depth

3.5 ×
Product

Revenue growth in APAC after launching Alipay

Local payment methods aren't a nice-to-have in Asia — they're the difference between converting and not. I led the frontend work to integrate Alipay and design a checkout that felt native to the region.

Context
Western-built checkout was underperforming in APAC; card-first flows didn't match local behavior.
Approach
Framework-agnostic payment orchestration, region-aware UX, and resilient fallbacks for flaky networks.
Result
3.5× revenue uplift in the region after introducing Alipay as a local method.
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Community

Growing ZurichJS into a thriving community

Community is where I get to lift people up at scale. As an organizer of ZurichJS, I focused on making it a place engineers actually want to come back to.

Context
A local meetup with potential but inconsistent momentum and turnout.
Approach
Consistent cadence, strong speakers, hands-on workshops, and a genuinely welcoming room.
Result
425 new members added during 2025, with sold-out workshop days.
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Leadership

Leading a cross-functional squad of 15

The best leadership keeps you close to the work. I led 15 engineers across frontend and backend — plus the skip-level management in between — without losing the plot technically.

Context
Two teams shipping a shared product surface, with coordination overhead slowing delivery.
Approach
Clear ownership, pragmatic architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers into more senior roles.
Result
Faster, more predictable delivery — and several engineers leveled up along the way.
Available · Q3 2026

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