Tara Raj
Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTara Raj is a Senior Software Development Manager with 11 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to build developer tools and AI-first products from 0 to 1. She has shipped high-impact projects across Microsoft and Amazon—including VS Code, WSL2, Azure Data Studio, Alexa AI, and Nova Act—bridging product engineering, ML Ops, and system design. Her technical focus spans GenAI, agents, LLMs, web crawling and large-scale data platforms, allowing her to translate research and prototypes into production-grade developer experiences. At Amazon she progressed from TPM to senior engineering manager, scaling teams and delivery in both Seattle and Boston. She also brings a founder’s mindset from prior CTO roles and hands-on open source contribution experience improving documentation for widely used cross-platform tooling. Colleagues rely on her mix of product intuition, technical rigor, and practical expertise in shipping developer-centric AI systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
sql3
rest3
python3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/mssql-scripter
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Repository for the new SQL cross-platform command line tools
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:29 commits, 25 pushes, 3 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tara primarily contributed to the project's documentation, focusing on the `README.rst` file. Their work involved updating usage examples, fixing broken links, adding links to usage and development guides, and revising the project's description. The edits suggest a focus on improving clarity, user understanding, and overall project documentation. The changes significantly improved the project's documentation and information accessibility.
command-line-toolsqlcommand-line-toolscross-platformcommand-line
tara-raj/AsyncTalent
Dec 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:64 commits in 1 year 10 months
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