# Azadeh Eftekhari > Software Development Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/azadeh Enthusiastic and results-driven backend developer with more than 3+ years of industry experience in designing / delivering efficient & scalable server-side solutions. Passionate about creating robust backend architectures and implementing high-quality solutions. Committed to collaborating with cross-functional teams to create and deploy innovative software products that enhance user experiences and drive business success. Technical Skills Languages Java, Python, SQL Technology RESTful web services, Linux, Spring framework, Hibernate, Microservices, 
 GitLab, GitHub, Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, AWS, Docker, unit and integration tests Database MySQL, IBM DB2, Hive, MongoDB Concepts Cloud Computing, data Modeling, Containerization, advanced data structures and algorithms ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer, Backend Developer @ OPTT Health Jan 2021 – Present | United States - Designed OpenApi in the application, facilitating seamless code generation for various programming languages. A unified reference system between backend and frontend to keep all the fields, models and apis in a single yaml file as well as validations for fields. This approach allowed dynamic adaptation to changes in one central location, significantly diminishing API inconsistencies and elevating overall maintainability. - Orchestrated seamless connectivity between the application and third-party entities through GraphQL and RESTful APIs. Expanded the application's feature set to cater customer needs, ensuring efficient data exchange and enhancing overall functionality. - Implemented search in the application using query DSL to allow users filter out the content based on their needs. It helped avoiding code repetition and increased its maintainability. ### Graduate Student Researcher @ Queen's University Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Canada Scalable full-stack framework Designed and implemented a framework to consolidate data from different distributed sources (HBase, Hive and RDBMS) into HDFS and developed a hybrid Software-as-a-Service for ad-hoc querying with a user-friendly web interface to access and query data from any device anywhere. The framework enabled seamless data integration from various resources and was validated with several test scenarios. ### Graduate Student Researcher @ Queen's University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Comprehensive review of Multi-Tenant Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) Surveyed state-of-the-art software-based classification methods of multi-tenant SaaS, focused on configuration/customization at application and middleware levels and data related aspects. It simplified selection of suitable multi-tenant SaaS models by introducing objective measures. ### Student @ Queen's University Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 All phases of a database application Designed and developed an application where users can add a new movie, a new critic and review, list the reviews for a movie and list the current movies with the highest ranking and where and when they are on screen. (SQL, JDBC and Java). Enhanced scalability of the application by implementing in Spark on Amazon EC2. ## Education ### Master of Science in Computer Science Queen's University ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Queen's University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/azadeh-eftekhari --- Source: https://flows.cv/azadeh JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/azadeh/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29