Summary
Raef Maroof is a software engineer with five years of experience building resilient, low-latency cloud systems and data pipelines, currently an SDE II at Amazon in New York. He blends a strong academic foundation in type systems—coauthoring a Distinguished Paper at POPL 2024—with hands-on production experience designing AWS Glue ETL, Fargate/ECS services, and event-driven workflows using SNS/SQS/Lambda/Step Functions. Comfortable moving between research and production, he focuses on elegant, auditable system design, algorithmic rigor, and pragmatic optimization while paying close attention to outliers and model robustness. Known for shipping performant backend Java services that scale to severe TPS with sub-millisecond goals, he also mentors and coordinates cross-engineer delivery to meet tight deadlines.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science BSE, Bachelor's degree Computer Science BSE at University of Michigan College of Engineering
Urdu, Arabic, English, Hindi