Surayya Zada
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolSurayya Zada is a Software Engineer II based in Prague with three years of professional experience building full-stack and back-end systems, currently at Microsoft. She has contributed notable enhancements to flagship .NET projects—especially Blazor, SignalR, and MSBuild—improving routing, accessibility, diagnostics, and template management across aspnetcore, sdk, and msbuild repositories. Her background spans fintech and enterprise software in Azerbaijan and she holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Known for practical debugging improvements and template work that subtly improve developer experience, she blends hands-on engineering with a focus on reliable build and runtime behaviors.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Московский Государственный Университет им. М.В. Ломоносова (МГУ)
Github Skills (31)
url-routing10
net-sdk10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
netframework10
blazor10
asp-net10
sdk10
dotnet-sdk10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
blazor-server10
msbuild9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/msbuild
Jan 2024 - Oct 2025
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:331 reviews, 149 PRs, 121 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Surayya primarily contributed to the Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) by implementing and refining SDK resolution logging. Their work involved modifying the SDK resolution process to log messages, errors, and warnings, improving debugging capabilities. The user also added a feature query API to the command line, implemented feature availability checks and included related command-line switches and properties. These changes enhance the user's ability to troubleshoot build processes.
build-enginedotnetmsbuildvisual-studiomicrosoft
dotnet/sdk
Apr 2023 - Sep 2025
Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 reviews, 28 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Surayya primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the .NET SDK repository. Their contributions involved updating dependencies from the Microsoft.AspNetCore repository, including changes to the `TemplatePackageCoordinator.cs` file. They also made modifications related to template management, such as replacing Razor Pages templates with Blazor templates in the `dotnet new` command. These changes likely improve the .NET SDK's functionality and user experience, especially for Blazor development.
clidotnetvisual-studiosdk
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