Cara Khajavi is a Full Stack Software Engineer II with 12 years of experience building production software at companies from startups to Intuit, blending full-stack development with machine learning, DevOps, and CI/CD expertise. With a Master’s in Computer Science and a BA in Linguistics and French, she brings a unique linguistics-informed perspective to data and language problems while also designing infrastructure-as-code and automation solutions. Her background includes Terraform, AWS, Jenkins, Docker, and Vault work at Veeva and hands-on Python data engineering that slashed processing time by 99% in prior roles. At UC Irvine she stood out by being selected for a role typically reserved for Ph.D. students, demonstrating both technical depth and strong mentorship/teaching skills. Based in Long Beach, she combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity-driven approach to problems that span models, pipelines, and scalable systems.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics and French, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics and French at University of California, Los Angeles
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Irvine
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Cara Khajavi - Full Stack Software Engineer II at Intuit