Samira Tasharofi
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSamira Tasharofi is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems, currently leading backend development for LinkedIn’s ads platform and serving as tech lead for Ad Serving. She blends deep research expertise—holding a Ph.D. from UIUC on testing concurrent and actor programs—with practical engineering, having developed a company-wide distributed logging infrastructure at Microsoft and tools for ads debugging and auction insights at LinkedIn. Samira focuses on up-leveling team craftsmanship and data model quality as a member of LinkedIn’s Data Model Review Committee, while also shipping new ad formats and optimization features. Her academic work produced Bita, an automated testing framework that discovered real concurrency bugs in Akka programs, reflecting a rare combination of theoretical rigor and hands-on impact. Based in Mountain View, she brings a track record of turning complex non-deterministic behaviors into testable, production-ready solutions.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of TehranDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (17)
gradient9
scalable8
distributed-systems8
machine-learning8
java8
xgboost8
portable8
dataflow8
gbm7
spark7
scala7
dask7
boosting7
python7
big-data6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
samira-t/setak
Nov 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:20 commits in 2 months
samira-t/Bita
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 4 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.