Summary
Farshid Zaker is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reusable components and enterprise-grade systems, currently driving backend and platform work at Uber in Amsterdam. He combines deep Java and Spring expertise with hands-on experience across databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra) and search (ElasticSearch), and is comfortable spanning front-end frameworks like React and Angular as well. Known for pragmatic software architecture, design-pattern-driven implementations and calm performance in high-pressure situations, he has delivered at scale across Booking.com, Mobiquity and several engineering leadership roles. A simplicity advocate and cooperative team player, he often focuses on frameworks and shared libraries that reduce long-term maintenance cost — a pattern reflected in his career-long emphasis on reusability and cross-domain solutions.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer-Software Engineering, B.Sc., Computer-Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, French, Persian, Azerbaijani