Syed Raza
Senior Software Engineer II at Elsevier | SciBite
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSyed Raza is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Cambridge with 13+ years building scalable, production-grade systems and over five years focused on solution architecture and AI-driven projects using Java and Python. He designs and delivers microservices, data pipelines, and NLP/ontology solutions—most recently leading the architecture and launch of Elsevier SciBite’s Workbench, adopted by multiple pharma clients. Comfortable across Spring, Django/FastAPI, Angular/React, SQL/NoSQL/Graph databases and DevOps tooling, he blends pragmatic engineering with semantic web expertise (RDF/OWL/SPARQL/SHACL) to tackle complex knowledge-driven problems. He has a strong healthcare and life-sciences pedigree, from nation-scale EMR rollouts to clinical data interoperability platforms, and has built LLM-based assistants to speed ontology curation. Known for converting research prototypes into customer-facing products, he also has hands-on experience integrating identity and third-party platforms (Benchling) to enable seamless workflows.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science in Information Technology Information Technology, Bachelors of Science in Information Technology Information Technology at PMAS University of Arid Agriculture
English, Urdu
Github Skills (30)
spring10
authentication10
spring-security10
java10
security10
spring-boot10
oauth10
owl8
semantics7
semantic-web7
geneontology7
endpoint7
rdf6
embedding6
bioinformatics6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bio-ontology-research-group/phenotype-reactor
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:248 pushes, 1 branch, 7 comments in 1 year 9 months
bio-ontology-research-group/DDIEM
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
DDIEM
Contributions:2 releases, 147 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 11 months
geneontologysemantic-webowl
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