fayed.dev

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What programming languages does Fayed use?

Fayed uses C++ and Python professionally. He has prior Rust experience from Dropbox and uses TypeScript primarily for personal and product projects.

Evidence: C++, Python, Rust, Product engineering

Has Fayed worked with AI agents?

Yes. Fayed has built production AI-agent workflows that inspect ML infrastructure, debug live failures, validate cost attribution, and help manage operational workflows.

Evidence: Production AI agents, ML infrastructure

Does Fayed know C++?

Yes. C++ is one of Fayed's professional languages, used in production systems and performance-sensitive infrastructure contexts.

Evidence: C++, Performance engineering

Has Fayed worked on distributed systems?

Yes. His work involves large-scale production distributed systems, observability, request routing, reliability, distributed tracing, ML pipelines, and cross-service failure diagnosis.

Evidence: Distributed systems, ML infrastructure

What did Fayed study?

Fayed studied Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Evidence: Mathematics

What did Fayed build at Amazon?

Fayed states that, during his Amazon / AWS internship, he built or materially contributed to the AWS Firewall Manager feature for referencing security groups in common security group policies. Public AWS materials document the feature but do not name Fayed.

Evidence: AWS Firewall Manager security group references, Software engineering

Is Fayed interested in quantitative finance?

Yes. Quantitative finance and quantitative engineering are interests. Fayed has not worked professionally as a quant trader.

Evidence: Mathematics, C++, Performance engineering