FAAIZ HAQUE SENIOR APPLICATION SUPPORT ANALYST FOUNDER 🇬🇧 UK
Five years commanding P1 incidents on Barclays risk platforms — then I quit, founded Haque Games, and shipped a word game to both app stores, solo. Now I want back on a team running production systems at scale.
ACTIVELY LOOKING — application support · SRE · cloud ops — anywhere in the UK
Now · 2025 — present
Haque Games
Founder · sole developer
My independent game studio. One person, every job title — design, code, backend, store ops, marketing, monetisation. From nothing to live on both stores — and still shipping.
haquegames.com ↗The classic childhood word game, revived and shipped to both app stores. Race the clock to fill every category — solo, with friends, or in a daily challenge. Gameplay, a 100k-word curated database, backend, phased rollouts, A/B tests and ad monetisation: all one pair of hands.
Before · 2020 — 2025
BARCLAYS
Owned day-to-day support for 8 applications on the client risk rating platform: P1/P2 incidents commanded end to end, change and release through ServiceNow, faults traced through AutoSys, MySQL and Linux logs. Wrote the 150+ entry knowledge base users rated 95/100.
BARCLAYS · ACTING TEAM LEAD
The team lead role sat vacant, so I stepped up as acting lead — onboarded and trained over 10 engineers. Automated manual operations with Python, Bash and SQL, and ran CutOver disaster recovery exercises across a multi-tool production estate.
BARCLAYS · GRADUATE PROGRAMME · AWS
Supported an AWS ETL platform processing bank-wide risk and financial data — EC2, S3, Step Functions, CloudWatch — resolving 400+ production incidents through log analysis and cross-team troubleshooting.
Toolkit
Education
Bilkent University · 2015 – 2019
Amazon Web Services
The pitch
Five years inside a bank's change-controlled estate, then a year as founder — the one who gets paged and the one who shipped the code. I know why process exists, and I know when to move fast.
AWS cloud support, banking production support, team leadership, and a mobile game built end to end — all on a First-Class Computer Engineering degree. Whichever layer breaks — infra, app or code — I've worked in it.
P1 bridge calls with 3,000+ users waiting: run the call, keep everyone informed, fix the fault, then write it up so it doesn't happen twice — my knowledge base scored 95/100 with its users.
Python, Bash and SQL automation that gave every engineer on my team back about an hour a day. Repetitive work is a bug, and I treat it like one.
Stepped up as acting team lead when the seat sat empty and onboarded and trained over 10 engineers. Then with NPAT I went fully solo: shipped it to both stores, won real customers, and covered every role myself.
Everything on this page is checkable: the uptime, the downloads, the apps live on both stores. Ask me about any of it — that's what the button below is for.