November 2016
Falling Up !
Thank you to all that attended to hear Faizal share his insights and stories including the role failure has played in his successes to date... he showed us how to fall up!
Meet Our Speaker ...
Faizal Kassamali Faizal has been a technology quality specialist for 15 years. He is currently a software engineer at Snapchat.
Prior to Snapchat he spent 7 years at Amazon as both a manager and an engineer in Amazon Web Services where his team's innovations earned them multiple patents and an award from the New York Times.
Faizal also spent several years building the first generation Kindle ecosystem of eReaders, tablets, and mobile apps. Before Amazon, he was at Microsoft where his role included working abroad at the Microsoft Research Lab in China. He began his career at Xerox where he was photocopying his face before selfies were even a thing!
Faizal is an Eagle Scout and holds a Masters Degree and a Bachelors in Computer Science from UCLA. He has served as the Western USA Chair for the Aga Khan Youth & Sports Board as well as in various volunteer positions with the Aga Khan Education Board, Camp Mosaic, Communications & Publications, and the Ismaili Magazine.
Prior to Snapchat he spent 7 years at Amazon as both a manager and an engineer in Amazon Web Services where his team's innovations earned them multiple patents and an award from the New York Times.
Faizal also spent several years building the first generation Kindle ecosystem of eReaders, tablets, and mobile apps. Before Amazon, he was at Microsoft where his role included working abroad at the Microsoft Research Lab in China. He began his career at Xerox where he was photocopying his face before selfies were even a thing!
Faizal is an Eagle Scout and holds a Masters Degree and a Bachelors in Computer Science from UCLA. He has served as the Western USA Chair for the Aga Khan Youth & Sports Board as well as in various volunteer positions with the Aga Khan Education Board, Camp Mosaic, Communications & Publications, and the Ismaili Magazine.