Summary
Damir Ferizović is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a decade of experience building high-performance systems, currently driving Azure Front Door—a hyperscale CDN used by Bing, Teams, and strategic customers. He led a multi-semester ground-up redesign of AFD’s Web Application Firewall and Rules Engine, owning the project from concept to production and emphasizing extreme performance by implementing core components in C. His background spans low-level systems work across Windows OS, speech synthesis, container communication, and multi-threaded performance optimizations from internships at Google and SAP to research roles at KIT and CMU. Damir has a strong foundation in algorithms and concurrency, demonstrated by research on particle track reconstruction and bit-parallel graph indexing. Based in New York, he blends systems-level rigor with product-facing delivery, preferring elegant, constant-time in-memory data structures that reduce runtime costs. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep technical craft with end-to-end ownership on mission-critical infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Japanese, English, bosnian / croatian / serbian / montenegrin, German