Fahad Zafar

CNN Commerce  ·  cnn.com/cnn-underscored

Leading multiple engineering teams focused on CNN Commerce — delivering revenue-driving product features, integrations, and platform improvements.

• Designed and delivered a product backend for the entire product and offers catalog for CNN Commerce.
• Engineering Manager for three CNN Commerce teams delivering on revenue targets and company goals.
• Integrated third-party partners for social marketing, content syndication and ingestion — contributing to double-digit YoY revenue growth.
• Built multiple features improving customer experience (A/B testing, page performance) and reducing editor workload (Amazon API integration, A.I. support framework).

Invoicing, Pricing & Log Services  ·  Virginia, US

Led the engineering team responsible for isolated regional services with very high throughput, covering invoicing, pricing, and log-related service solutions.

Invoicing, Pricing & Log Services  ·  Virginia, US

Worked as an individual contributor on isolated regional services with very high throughput, focused on invoicing, pricing, and log-related service solutions.

Research & Development

• Designed and implemented cloud services for complex tasks including machine learning and photogrammetry (images to textured mesh) using AWS.
• Wrote the Point Cloud plug-in for Vectorworks 2016 using PCL — a launch feature for the product.

3D Stereoscopic Display Research

Conducted research on 3D stereoscopic display devices, producing multiple peer-reviewed publications on display quality, veiling glare, and computational observer methods.

Multicore Computing Lab  ·  Baltimore, MD

Research on imaging and vision problems in medical applications — solving them through hybrid (CPU+GPU) multi-core computing techniques.

Computer Vision Research Group

Wrote a multi-threaded depth map extractor generating a point cloud via the plane sweep algorithm for the Amazon Fire Phone.

YouTube Data Analytics

Worked on the YouTube Data Analytics team, building and improving data pipelines and insights infrastructure.

YouTube Video Editor Team

Integrated the slow motion effect into the YouTube video editor, along with other effects used to compose more complex visual results.