Azfar Kazmi

About Azfar Kazmi

An engineering leader with almost two decades of experience in building scalable and highly latency-sensitive software – including almost a decade in various leadership roles, leading geographically dispersed teams.I’m passionate about building self-driven, high-performing teams, coaching and mentoring so everyone unlocks their full potential, and celebrating the successes that come as a result. I love to lead teams who take pride in their work, are empowered to think outside the box, and have lots of fun along the way.At ServiceNow, I have been engaged in building world-class data retrieval, transformation, integration, and authentication platform capabilities, enabling cross-organizational, cross-platforms digital workflows. Over the years, at ServiceNow and before, I have built or led various enterprise SAAS products and platforms using a variety of technologies (primary in enterprise Java family) and have filed or awarded several patents.My hands-on development work, at ServiceNow and before, has spanned from servlets, and transactions to sql generation and query optimization, to multithreaded execution and async messaging, and most things in between.Expertise: Software Development, SAAS Platforms, ML platforms, Technology Leadership, Focused Execution, Building teams, Coaching, Active listening, Building win-win partnerships.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Software Engineering

   ServiceNow

   Mar 2024 — Present

Education

• Dawood College of Engineering and Technology

  BE, Electronic Engineering

  1993 — 1997

• Wichita State University

  MS, Computer Science

  2001 — 2002