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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

Building ZurichJS into an award-winning community

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

Context
Cofounded ZurichJS and built it from zero into one of Europe’s most in-demand conferences in under two years.
Approach
Consistent cadence, strong speakers, hands-on workshops, and a genuinely welcoming room.
Result
JSNation Open Source Award winner, 425 new members added during 2025, and 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 · Q4 2026

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