Maryam Shahid
Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure | Duke University Karsh Scholar
- Role
- Software Engineer at Microsoft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Maryam Shahid
Hi, I am a software engineer and Karsh Scholar from Duke University, currently at Microsoft Azure Networking. Experienced in distributed backend systems, concurrency, and full-stack development, with a focus on scalable, high-performance, and resilient software. I am open to full-time opportunities in software engineering where I can pursue my passion of developing new and innovative technologies.
Experience
Software Engineer
Aug 2023 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Designed and optimized distributed systems powering Azure’s global networking infrastructure, serving thousands of organizations and millions of requests per day.• Fixed race conditions and locking contention in Partition Manager, reducing CPU usage and cutting P99 failover times by ~40s.• Redesigned a regional API to resolve scalability and consistency issues: fixed concurrency in reliable dictionaries using atomic transactions, simplified algorithmic complexity O(n² → O(n)), and switched to gRPC streaming with compression. Improved throughput by 30% and eliminated regional timeouts (~400 req/min sustained).• Reduced transactional disk reads by 10–20% via batching and cache optimization.• DRI for on-call rotation, leading root cause analyses (RCA) for critical incidents and driving mitigations to strengthen system reliability
Education
Babson College
Summer Study , Entrepreneurial Development Experience
2017 — 2017
Yale University
Yale Young Global Scholars, Applied Science and Engineering
2018 — 2018
Duke University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
2019 — 2023
Skills
- English
- Python
- Life Sciences
- German
- Squash
- Leadership
- Italian
- Javascript
- Urdu
- Badminton
- Programming
- Mathematics
- Teamwork
- Research
- Team Organisation
- Entrepreneurship
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