//SUBJECT

FAIZAN MUGHAL

SOFTWARE ENGINEER APPLE

//BIO

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Software engineer at Apple.
Previously at Capital One, Lockheed Martin, and ST Engineering iDirect — production APIs, gRPC services, a wildfire forecast model, and embedded systems work in C++ and Python.
Graduated from George Mason University in 2025 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
Interests include full-stack development, machine learning, and quantitative finance.

//EXPERIENCE

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EXPANDED: 001 — APPLE

ROLE

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

LOCATION

REMOTE

TENURE

OCT 2025 — PRESENT

STACK

NODE.JS · PYTHON · SAP

IN PROGRESS
- Built an internal Alert Notification Dashboard (SAP CAP / Node.js / SAP UI5) that surfaces runtime errors across enterprise apps and lets developers track incident resolution in real time.
- Engineered a mobile service monitoring application that continuously pings retail applications to detect service degradation before business impact occurs.
- Automated secure service-key rotation inside SAP BTP, eliminating a class of manual operational errors and reducing engineering overhead.
EXPANDED: 002 — CAPITAL ONE

ROLE

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

LOCATION

RICHMOND, VA

TENURE

AUG 2025 — OCT 2025

STACK

JAVA · SPRING BOOT · AWS · PYTHON

SUMMARY
- Modernized a production Java Spring Boot API to integrate with One Lake — Capital One's internal AWS data layer — improving performance and maintainability.
- Implemented an authentication flow for secure data access and drove unit-test coverage past 80%, keeping deployments reliable through the migration.
- Built a Python automation script that dynamically generates live-dependency test code for new data sources, significantly cutting manual setup time.
- Refactored core service logic during the One Lake migration, reducing technical debt across the API codebase.
EXPANDED: 003 — LOCKHEED MARTIN

ROLE

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN

LOCATION

MANASSAS, VA

TENURE

MAY 2024 — AUG 2024

STACK

PYTHON · GRPC · REACT · RAG / ML

CLEARANCE

SECRET

SUMMARY
- Implemented backend gRPC client and service calls in Python, abstracting external API logic into a cleaner, more maintainable interface layer.
- Led the AI/ML workstream for a wildfire forecast prediction project — applied RAG and an internal ML framework to train a model on real geospatial data.
- Extended a React/JS test-automation and scheduling frontend, enabling users to create and schedule test plans on remote servers.
EXPANDED: 004 — ST ENGINEERING IDIRECT

ROLE

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN

LOCATION

HERNDON, VA

TENURE

MAY 2023 — AUG 2023

STACK

C++ · PYTHON · EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

SUMMARY
- Identified and resolved network disconnection issues on embedded devices (linecards) using C++ and Python, improving system stability by 20%.
- Analyzed performance bottlenecks and implemented targeted C++ / Python optimizations, achieving a 35% performance improvement across embedded systems.
- Refactored code and streamlined processes to optimize resource utilization across the embedded device fleet.
EXPANDED: 005 — GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

DEGREE

B.S. COMPUTER SCIENCE

LOCATION

FAIRFAX, VA

TENURE

2021 — 2025

COURSEWORK
- Coursework: analysis of algorithms, data structures, operating systems, computer systems architecture, databases, software engineering, networking, secure programming, and intro AI.
- Math: linear algebra, probability & statistics.
- Graduated August 2025.

//TOOLKIT

5 CATEGORIES · 29 ENTRIES

LANGUAGES

PYTHON
C / C++
JAVA
JAVASCRIPT
HTML / CSS

FRAMEWORKS & TOOLS

NODE.JS
REACT.JS
NEXT.JS
THREE.JS
SPRING BOOT
SAP CAP / BTP
SPLUNK
AWS
EXPRESS.JS
DOCKER
KUBERNETES
GIT
JENKINS
LINUX

DATABASES

MONGODB
SQL

PRACTICES

RESTFUL APIS
GRPC
TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
EVENT DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE
AGILE
CI/CD
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

CLEARANCE

SECRET U.S. DoD previously held

//HANDLES

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