# Maryam Quadir

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maryamquadir

Software engineer focused on  Recommendation systems and  Machine Learning and backend infrastructure.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Material Security
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Technical Coach : Intermediate and Advanced Algorithms @ CodePath
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Help students prepare for interviews with top tech companies by practicing algorithm problems, identifying test cases, and more.

### Software Engineer - YouTube Growth and Recommendations @ YouTube
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | San Bruno, California, United States
My work resulted in a significant increase in Daily Active Users (DAU), Notifications Opens and Engagement while reducing Dissatisfaction scores and Opt-outs.

- Worked on  core machine learning models: Video Recommendation (Homepage),  Ranking Notifications for engagement and Predicting opt-outs in Tensorflow. 
- Led the redesign of the opt-out model. This improved the models’ performance by several folds in training and production.
- Designed and Implemented  several data pipelines to enable new types of features  for training and serving. 
- Collaborated with the Responsible AI Research Team to launch a novel adversarial-learning based model. This improved our results for several marginalized groups.

### Software Engineer - Google Ads @ Google
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, California
Mobile Ads:
In-App advertisement for Android Mobile Apps : http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/22/google-to-offer-mobile-app-install-ads-in-search-and-youtube-expands-app-deep-linking-to-adwords/
Search Ads:
- Drove the development and launch of a new ad format for google.com 
- Project: Image Extensions for Adwords
http://adwords.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-image-extensions-enable-you-to-show.html
- Project: Video Ads for Adwords(deprecated)
- Project: Media Ads for Movies, Music and Games

### Software Developer (Service Intelligence) @ Microsoft
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Our team develops the platform to collect and report various quality of service metrics (e.g. Reliability, Performance, Failures etc). With our service, Windows Live Services can identify the cause of an outage, reliability drops etc anywhere in the pipeline.
 1. Worked on the web-based UI components for the reporting platform.
 2. Wrote T-SQL queries to answer various queries about the performance of the service.
 3. Managed Unit testing and quality assurance

### Software Developer (Windows Live Account) @ Microsoft
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
1. Worked on Live Account platform developing web pages and optimizing CSS to work with supported browsers using ASP.NET MVC
2. Developed middle-tier APIs for retrieving data from the Windows Live storage back-ends using C#
•	Examples of features (publicly accessible):
1.	Landing page:
       https://account.live.com/summarypage.aspx
2.	Password Reset Feature: https://account.live.com/ResetPassword.aspx


## Education
### Bachelors in Software Engineering
University of Waterloo

### Android Development Bootcamp
CodePath


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maryamq
- Website: https://maryamq.substack.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01