Tauseef Fayyaz
Lead Full Stack Engineer & Career Mentor
I'm Tauseef Fayyaz. I lead a full-stack engineering team, working day to day alongside engineers who have built systems and sat on hiring panels at FAANG-scale companies. Most of my time goes into architecture calls, code review, and getting the engineers on my team unstuck, which is where nearly everything I share about careers actually comes from.
- following on LinkedIn
- 90K+
- shipping production software
- 5+ years
- of engineers mentored 1:1
- Hundreds
- the year Sefism started
- 2024
What I have learned, and why I teach it.
Leading a team taught me the part nobody writes about: the gap between engineers who progress and engineers who stall is rarely raw ability. It is scope, communication, judgement about what to build, and knowing how your work is read by the people who decide promotions. That is the material I teach.
Scope
Taking on work that is bigger than the ticket, and finishing it.
Communication
Making your work legible to the people who decide what happens next.
Judgement
Knowing what is worth building, and what is not.
Outside of work I spend most of my time on how developers grow, from a first line of code to shipping real products and moving a career forward. I share what works at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and growth with a community of 90,000+ on LinkedIn.
I also mentor engineers 1:1 through Sefism, recognised by Topmate as a Tech Career Evangelist along the way. The members I work with are juniors and fresh graduates breaking into the industry, mid-level engineers working on promotion cases, and career-switchers moving into product companies. That is hundreds of engineers so far, across personal branding, LinkedIn strategy, system-design coaching, and career planning.
Sefism is the home base I founded in August 2024 to bring all of that together: mentorship, career guidance, project feedback, and learning resources in one focused community.
I also collaborate with brands and tools across AI and developer tooling on content that teaches something real. For mentorship, collaborations, promos, or partnerships, my inbox is open.
Experience & education
The advice comes from doing the work.
5+ years shipping production software: payments infrastructure, developer tooling, and now leading the team that builds it.
Experience
Apr 2023 - Present
Full-time
Remote · Redmond, WA
Design Gurus
Lead Full Stack Engineer (Team Lead)
Oct 2024 - Present- Lead a full-stack engineering team alongside engineers who have built systems and sat on hiring panels at FAANG-scale companies.
- Own architecture decisions, code review, and engineering standards across the platform.
- Grow the engineers on the team: onboarding, mentoring, and setting the bar for what ships.
Senior Software Engineer
Jul 2024 - Oct 2024Software Engineer
Apr 2023 - Jul 2024
Aug 2024 - Present
Self-employed
Lahore, Pakistan · Remote
Sefism
Founder
- Founded Sefism to bring mentorship, career guidance, project feedback, and AI/engineering resources into one focused community.
Sep 2023 - Present
Self-employed
Remote
Topmate.io
Tech Career Evangelist
May 2025 - Present- Recognised by Topmate as a Tech Career Evangelist.
- Mentorship, personal branding, LinkedIn strategy, career advice, AMAs.
Mentor
Sep 2023 - May 2025
Jun 2021 - Mar 2023
Full-time
Lahore, Pakistan · On-site
i2c Inc.
Software Engineer
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023Associate Software Engineer
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Mar 2020 - Apr 2023
Freelance
Remote
Upwork
Freelance Software Engineer · Top Rated
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Contract
Lahore, Pakistan · On-site
University of the Punjab
Teaching Assistant
Education
University of the Punjab
2017 - 2021BS, Computer Software Engineering · 3.55 CGPA · A-
Taught algorithms, assembly, and OOP labs as a TA while studying. That was the first time I found out I liked explaining this stuff.
Punjab Group of Colleges, Arifwala
2015 - 2017FSc · Pre-Engineering · A+ · 980 / 1100
Jinnah Educational Complex, Arifwala
2013 - 2015Matriculation · Science · A+ · 1015 / 1100
Top skills
Full-Stack Development · Next.js · TypeScript · Node.js · MongoDB · System Design · AI Engineering · Java · Python · Coaching & Mentoring · Leadership · Technical Content
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