Full-stack JavaScript developer with 2+ years of professional experience building, maintaining, and scaling production web applications. Strong background in React, Next.js, Node.js, and MongoDB, with hands-on experience designing APIs, CMS-driven platforms, and performance-sensitive features. Known for a pragmatic engineering mindset, clean abstractions, and ownership-driven execution.
Currently focused on strengthening system design, performance optimization, and architectural decision-making to operate effectively at a senior engineer level.
Frontend
- React, Next.js (App Router, SSR/SSG, Server Components)
- JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Radix UI, NextUI
- Accessibility, responsive design, UI architecture
Backend
- Node.js, Express.js
- REST API design, custom endpoints
- MongoDB, Mongoose
- Payload CMS (custom blocks, rich text extensions, media pipelines)
Engineering Practices
- Component-driven development
- Performance profiling & optimization
- API design & data modeling
- Code reviews, refactoring, technical debt management
- Git, GitHub, collaborative workflows
- Designing and refining scalable frontend architectures using Next.js and modern React patterns
- Improving performance and data-fetching strategies for content-heavy and CMS-backed applications
- Deepening understanding of system design, trade-offs, and production debugging
- Exploring patterns for maintainable UI systems and design-system alignment
(Actively building and iterating — public projects will be shared once they reach production readiness.)
- Built and maintained full-stack features end-to-end, from UI to database
- Worked with CMS-driven architectures to support editors and non-technical users
- Optimized API and query performance for production workloads
- Collaborated with small cross-functional teams (developers, designers, data)
- Took ownership of ambiguous problems and delivered practical solutions
- Email: faranmd1@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdfaran/
- GitHub: https://github.com/FaranGreens