Maggie Salak
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMaggie Salak is a software engineer with eight years of experience designing and shipping scalable backend and data systems across top tech and financial firms. She has built high-throughput services and big-data pipelines at companies including Microsoft, Uber, Doodle, Optiver and Amazon, working with languages and platforms from C#, Java and Go to Spark, Kafka and Kubernetes. At Microsoft she supports global-scale customers in CSE, applying cloud-native practices (Azure, Terraform, CI/CD) to real-world enterprise requirements. Her background in both finance and ad-tech gives her a strong instincts for low-latency reliability and data-driven product impact—she once led a terabyte-scale pipeline to surface marketing campaign performance. Comfortable across the full development lifecycle, she pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation and operational monitoring. Based in Zurich, she combines quantitative training in economics and computer science with practical experience building production-grade distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Warsaw School of EconomicsBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Warsaw
English, German, Polish, Dutch
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Github Skills (13)
azure-deployment10
lorawan9
gateway9
substitution9
azure8
puzzle7
iot7
raspberry-pi7
encrypt5
cryptography4
sd-card4
station3
lora2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
observability-lab-cse/observability-lab-workshop
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
This repository contains hands-on labs and exercises to learn basic observability concepts using the OpenTelemetry and Azure ecosystem. 🔍
Contributions:84 reviews, 14 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 5 months
MaggieSalak/algorithmic-challenges
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:93 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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