About

Jafar Husain is a highly skilled full-stack software developer with over 17 years of experience building solutions for prestigious corporations and organizations. He is currently working as a Software Developer at Facebook. Jafar is best known for inventing the Falcor protocol, which is designed to optimize the way rich internet apps retrieve, cache, and modify structured data. The protocol enabled Netflix apps to reduce parsing time by retrieving the precise set of data needed for a given use case. Today, Netflix apps use Falcor to send millions of requests a day. As the sole Tech Lead in Netflix’s UI Engineering Org, Jafar collaborated with technical leadership in the Edge team to design and build a new platform which enabled Netflix UI developers to publish cloud services (API.Next). He played a key technical role in Netflix's effort to improve the performance of the app in developing nations. Jafar achieved a 10x improvement in startup time on the Android app by helping engineers on both mobile teams to leverage Falcor’s caching capabilities. Jafar also improved the competitiveness of GE Water by developing a web-based equipment database as the lead developer of a team. The software centralized pricing information across the business and improved the accuracy of project bids. Jafar has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. He was a Software Developer Engineer 2 at Microsoft, where he conceived, designed, and implemented ImplicitStyleManager within his first week on the job. He was also the primary developer on the Silverlight Charts Data-Visualization Platform, which has been downloaded by over 10,000 developers. Jafar's education includes a year of study at Thompson Rivers University. His tech stack includes software engineering, UI, senior software engineering, Android, mobile, web, Javascript, and Java. With over 17 years of relevant experience, Jafar is a highly respected software developer in the industry.