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Guide Fari

Software Engineer

Tech Experience

Frontend

React, React Native, TypeScript, Next.js

Backend

Go, C#, PHP, Node.js

Cloud & Infra

AWS (Solutions Architect – Associate), GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, self-hosted VPS

Delivery

CI/CD pipelines, SST, GitHub Actions, shell scripts, monorepo tooling, component libraries

Work Experience

ShopriteX

Software Engineer

Nov 2025 → Present

Littlefish

Software Engineer

Sept 2024 → Oct 2025

  • Building a whitelabelled, multi-tenant SaaS
  • Started across 3 frontend products using React: Management Portal, E-Commerce, CRM
  • Went deeper into the wider product stack over time, including infrastructure, deployments, and platform concerns
  • Worked with core backend services in C# and the operational side of shipping them
  • Managed Kubernetes workloads and contributed to deployments across the product environment
  • Helped build a pay app from the ground up within the existing platform
  • Consolidated separate web applications into a monorepo to improve delivery and shared ownership
  • Worked across GCP, Azure, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and security scanning in delivery workflows

Zulzi

Software Engineer

June 2023 → Aug 2024

  • Embedded in the Checkers Sixty60 project, part of a team working on the 2.0 app
  • React Native, TypeScript
  • Micro frontend architecture, multiple repos
  • Mostly UI, sometimes platform & DX

Flexperto

Frontend Engineer

May 2022 → May 2023

  • Converting a monolith PHP web app into React while keeping production up
  • Built, battle tested, & documented migration strategies
  • Documented patterns around micro-frontend applications
  • Refactoring was a big part of the day to day on an old codebase
  • Backend work in MolecularJS & PHP, plus build tooling improvements
  • Multi-tenant SaaS

Proud achievements at Flexperto

  • Informally led a team of 2-3 migrating a 5+ year old scheduling calendar from vanilla JS to React, ensuring feature parity & no regression
  • Became an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate while working full time
  • Saw positive side effects from writing efforts

Sigma Digital

Frontend Engineer

Jan 2021 → May 2022

  • Bespoke software consultancy of about 20-30 employees
  • Worked across multiple teams and technology stacks: VB.Net, Angular, React
  • Embedded in a Hungerrush team updating UI of a VB.Net app to match their 2021 Design System
  • Built a re-usable React component library for Quorum
  • Spent final months embedded in the internal Sigma Digital team using Next.js
  • Built proof of concept projects as part of architecture research

Freelance

Software Engineer

Dec 2019 → Jan 2021

  • This is where the professional career started

Consulting

Planetary Escape

Open source and client work. Nurturing a community of like minded individuals.

Cyberpro Consulting

React Native

Leadership

Hillside Dams Waterfront

June 2018 → Nov 2019

Ran operations for the venue & managed a rotating team of 10 people.

Greenfingers

Research & Project Management. Taught farmers how to grow horticulture seedlings using a simple hydroponic system.

Education

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