# Moid Alam

> Staff Engineer at Uber, ex-Microsoft

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/moid

Staff Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience designing high-scale distributed systems and
mission-critical microservices. Proven technical leader at Uber and Microsoft driving complex, multi-team
initiatives across event-driven architectures, payment modernization, insurance data pipelines, and AI/maps
workflow platforms. Combines deep hands-on expertise in Golang, Kafka, and Cadence with strong
cross-functional execution and a consistent track record of shipping at scale.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2015 – Present | Palo Alto, CA
Family & Teens
Insurance (Dec 2019 to present)
- insurance claims pipeline
- re-architect effort to make system event driven, deprecate third party system

Golang, Kafka, MySQL , cadence (workflow system)

Security (Mar 2019 to Dec 2019)

Workflow System aka Sirius aka uTask (Aug 2015 to Mar 2019)

- Co-designed and implemented domain-agnostic Workflow system (MySQL, Node.js)
- Led team of ~5 devs
- Advised and facilitated other groups on how to interface with the Workflow system
- Managed services
- Handled scalability issues
- Worked closely with Operations to find the pain points and collaborate on features
- Expanded the design to cater to other groups in Uber.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA
Geospatial services
C#, SQL, C/C++

Ingestion of road data and places
Middle layer for Map Editing
Map Store investigation
Map Data Validation
Workflow for map editing

### Senior Development Lead @ Microsoft
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, CA
WinRT, C#, Windows Store Apps, C/C++, Architect
Geospatial client projects

### Senior Software Developer @ Microsoft
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, CA
Speech features integration in Windows Mobile, porting of speech engine from Windows CE to thin Windows 8 (Apollo).

C/C++, WinDbg, STL, Win32, COM, etc

### Senior Software Developer @ Microsoft
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Palo Alto, CA
Messaging App/middleware for Windows Mobile that enables users to send and receive messages (MMS) with photos and videos on a mobile device. 

Responsibilities:
•	Designed, implemented and maintained a robust and scalable messaging application to send messages [MMS] with photos and videos from mobile devices.
•	Profiled MMS application to analyze and improve performance of the application.
•	Actively participated in code reviews and provided feedback on design and implementation. 

Technologies/Programming Languages:
C#, C++, Windows CE, CEMAPI, Win32 API, XML, XPath

### Senior Software Developer @ Microsoft
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 | Mountain View, CA
Windows 7:

• Windows Media Center's recording, tuning, media quality, inband guide issues
• Resolving TV tuners compatibility issues, working with 3rd parties 
• PBDA (inband guide) Implementation for Dishnetwork


Technologies/Programming Languages:
C#, C/C++, Win32 API, SQL, TCP/IP, Crash Dump analysis (using WinDbg), XML, XPath

### Software Developer @ Microsoft
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006
Windows CE based DVR

• Middleware for video playback/recording, audio, etc
• UI

Technologies/Programming Languages:
C/C++, Win32 API, XML

### Software Developer @ Microsoft
Jan 2002 – Jan 2005
Worked in Hotmail tools development team.

• Simulated open proxy servers, spammers, etc
• Built a plugin based architecture Moxie for unit and system test 

Technologies/Programming Languages:
C#, C/C++, Win32 API, TCP/IP, XML, SQL Schema, SQL stored procs


## Education
### BE in Computer Systems
NED University of Engineering and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/moidalam

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Last updated: 2026-04-12