Faris Aziz
Staff Software Engineer and Conference Speaker. I help teams ship resilient frontend systems and payment integrations — then I go talk about how on stage.
What brings you here?
Pick a path →Trusted on stages at
What I speak about
From technical deep-dives to career guidance — real systems I've shipped, on stage.
React & Next.js
Performance and architecture patterns for production at scale.
Payments & Fintech
Orchestrating money across borders — how Alipay, Stripe, and friends actually behave under load.
Developer Experience
Tooling and workflows engineers actually love using.
Career & Community
Growing a career on stage. How I went from first lightning talk to ZurichJS organizer.
Talks across 20 countries
From San Francisco to Singapore — 86 events, 29 cities, all routed from a home base in Geneva.
Americas
New York San Francisco
Europe
Amsterdam Athens Barcelona Coimbra Lisbon London Milan Paris Prague Vienna Warsaw Zurich
Asia
Singapore
Impact, in plain numbers
Added to ZurichJS during 2025.
Cross-functional squad, 2022–2024.
In APAC after launching Alipay.
Two ways I can help
Consulting
Architecture reviews and hands-on implementation for teams and startups shipping payment flows that can't fall over.
- Architecture reviews & audits
- Performance optimization
- Team workshops & enablement
Mentorship
1:1 coaching for engineers looking to grow their career — and the confidence to back it up.
- Career strategy & navigation
- Code & portfolio reviews
- Async support via Slack
What people say
Real reactions from conferences, meetups, and colleagues — pulled straight from the social feeds.
Hammad Hassan Bajwa
Full-Stack Software Engineer, International Speaker
Dec 10, 2025
Whenever I need guidance about my career and the direction I want to take, there is one person I always turn to: Faris Aziz. He has been a mentor to me and a constant source of clarity, support and motivation. After the huge success of ZurichJS in 2025, Faris and his amazing team are taking things to the next level with something the community has been waiting for: 𝐙𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐉𝐒 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 ZurichJS has grown into one of the most energetic and fast growing tech communities in Switzerland. Turning that momentum into a full scale international community conference is a major milestone for the JS scene across Europe, bringing together top speakers, builders and engineers from all around. Blind bird tickets just went live with only 30 available, and this is the lowest price you will get before early birds drop on January 1st. If you want to bring your team along, reach out and the ZurichJS crew will help you sort everything out. And if your company is interested in supporting a community driven conference, ZurichJS is now in the sponsorship phase and open for conversations. Get your tickets at: conf.zurichjs.com Let’s make this an event to remember.
Mark Erikson
Redux maintainer, and Senior Front-End Engineer at Replay.io
Dec 9, 2025
Faris is awesome, and you should go attend ZurichJS Conf! :)
Rajni Gediya
Staff Engineer | BLE • Mobile • Medical IoT | Speaker
Nov 22, 2025
I had the chance to meet Faris Aziz in person during the speaker photo session at #ReactSummitUS, and I’m so glad I did — what an incredible engineer and human. His talk, “Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions,” was honestly one of the most impressive 20-minute sessions I’ve ever seen. He delivered 5x content with perfect clarity, no confusion, and a beautifully structured walkthrough of the entire caching optimization process. The way he broke down caching strategies, payload handling, and real-world UX considerations — all with a clear example — was simply masterful. Faris is truly an engineer, an artist, a craftsman, and a speaker all at once. And beyond the technical brilliance, he brings a natural lightness and positive energy to the room. His humor and presence make complex topics easier to absorb — you walk away feeling both smarter and more energized. I also enjoyed listening to him during the “Growing to Senior and Tech Lead” discussion. His perspectives were honest, grounded, and incredibly valuable. Faris, you’re a fantastic engineer, collaborator, and storyteller. Thanks you 🙌
Sunil Ganta
Software & AI Engineer
Nov 20, 2025
Thank you, Faris Aziz Your session was genuinely inspiring, especially hearing how you grew into a leadership role so early in your career. The way you shared your journey, your principles, and the lessons you learned along the way really stayed with me. It’s motivating for all of us who are still shaping our path in engineering. Glad I got the chance to attend and learn from you!
Ioannis Krokos
Full Stack Software Engineer
Nov 13, 2025
Two solid days in the ZurichJS community this month. First, the React Architecture workshop with Faris Aziz - an intense 3-hour crash course on production-ready patterns. We dived into Atomic Design, React reconciliation, resilience engineering, and observability. The kind of tactical knowledge that immediately changes how you write code. Then, the ZurichJS 1st Anniversary celebration - the talks were impressive, great energy, real conversations with developers building things here, and the kind of community vibe that makes you want to keep showing up. What stuck with me most wasn't just the technical content, but connecting with people who are solving similar challenges. That's something you don't get from courses or tutorials. If you're in Zurich and building with JavaScript, the ZurichJS community is worth your time. Great people, solid events, and genuine knowledge sharing.
Darko Bozhinovski
CottageCore WebDev | Co-founder @what-the-stack-conference
Sep 21, 2025
I'll keep this short - you need a Faris Aziz on your conference, meetup, whatever. This guy's enthusiasm lights up rooms.
Tejas Kumar
Host, ConTejas Code Podcast. Best Selling Author, Fluent React. Investor. Advisor.
Sep 21, 2025
Fantastic recap. Faris is one of the best speakers I’ve seen recently and it was an honor and delight to meet him. The guy is going places.
Bogdan Mihai Ilie
Frontend Web Engineer | Advocate | Community Builder
Sep 19, 2025
It's been a year and I had never managed to catch one of Faris Aziz's workshops. And I'm finally getting to see him in action at the WhatTheStack Conference in Skopje I'm not known for being vocal about praise, but this workshop is really darn cool. I never kbew about chaos engineering, or a whole bunch of terms for patterns that smart people figured out over time to build performant apps. And got to discuss alerting, which is a topic that was brought up at the last meetup. And a bunch more stuff Aaaand he's also bringing it to ZurichJS on November 12th 👀 I know I'm biased, but, again, those who know me, know I don't sugarcoat things. This workshop's good, can recommend. All the info on the ZurichJS website🤘
Daniel Afonso
@danieljcafonsoSenior Developer Advocate @PagerDuty | @solid_js DX team
Apr 23, 2025
I love how natural Faris is at this. His warm-up exercise is one of the best things I have seen for a workshop. It challenges everyone's expectations but also sets a proper tone for the session
Let's work together
I speak at conferences and run workshops — plus technical advisory for teams that need a Staff-level second opinion. Tell me about your event or team and I'll get back within two days.