Summary
Efrat Malka is a Senior Software Engineer based in Redmond with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale, secure cloud systems. Currently contributing to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, she has driven security and compliance features across Azure Security Center and earlier cloud-native SaaS projects. Her background spans hands-on architecture, leading distributed teams and outsourcing partners, and building modular, REST/OSGi-based platforms for enterprise environments. Comfortable in both Agile and traditional lifecycles, she brings deep systems design and multi-threaded J2EE experience alongside modern cloud security practices. Collected from roles at Microsoft, CA Technologies, ARRIS and BigBand, her career highlights a consistent focus on reliability, scalability and practical compliance solutions. Colleagues describe her as self-motivated with strong interpersonal skills who bridges technical depth and delivery leadership.
5 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Mathematics, Computer Science, B.Sc, Mathematics, Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Hebrew, English, Spanish, French