Azhar Syed
Senior Software Engineer at Lyft
Ottawa, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolAzhar Syed is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ottawa with eight years of backend engineering experience building scalable services at companies such as Lyft, Amazon, Shopify, and OpenText. He specializes in backend systems and has advanced from intern roles to senior engineering at Lyft, demonstrating rapid growth and consistent impact in production environments. Azhar holds a Master of Engineering in Computer Software Engineering from Carleton University and brings practical experience across high-throughput e-commerce and ride-sharing platforms. He’s comfortable navigating large codebases and delivering reliable APIs and backend infrastructure, with a track record of shipping features in fast-paced, customer-facing teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at CMR College of Engineering & TechnologyMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Software Engineering at Carleton University
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Github contributions (5)
azhartalha/Movie-Mania
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
azhartalha/Algorithms-and-Data-Structures
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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