Roohi Syeda
Staff Software Engineer at Coupang
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRoohi Syeda is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of professional experience based in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently driving engineering at Coupang after an extended tenure at Cloudera. She brings full-stack expertise across Java/J2EE, frontend templating, and systems integration, with a track record of shipping production features that improve observability and debugging—evidenced by her contributions to the popular open-source Hue SQL Query Assistant. Her background spans enterprise software at HPE and Oracle to engineering-heavy roles at Altair, where she built data-processing interfaces, schedulers, and visualization tooling, showing comfort with both low-level parsing and high-level UI work. Known for bridging backend and frontend concerns, she frequently implements end-to-end solutions that touch templates, views, and monitoring pages. Roohi pairs strong technical execution with a systems-oriented mindset from her MS in Software Engineering, and she favors pragmatic improvements that make large distributed systems easier to understand and operate.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMS, Software Engineering, MS, Software Engineering at San José State University
Github Skills (11)
python10
mako10
django9
back-end-development9
javascript9
editors8
editor8
sql-db8
sql8
front-end-development8
query-builder8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cloudera/hue
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Open source SQL Query Assistant service for Databases/Warehouses
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:210 commits, 56 pushes, 14 branches in 9 months
Contributions summary:Roohi primarily contributed to integrating new features within the Hue SQL Query Assistant service. They focused on integrating pages such as "Threads" and "Metrics" into the /about section of the application, indicating a focus on enhancing system monitoring and debugging capabilities. The commits also involve UI modifications and updates to the main application template, showing work across both backend and frontend components. These changes involved modifications to both frontend templates and backend view files, indicating full-stack involvement in these feature integrations.
databasedatabasessql-querysqlsql-editor
cloudera/cdw-cloud-policies
Nov 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:10 reviews, 27 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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