Summary
Zaki Farooqi is a senior software engineer at Oracle's Analytics division with nine years of experience designing and shipping microservices-based cloud analytics products. He combines strong academic foundations—a high-performing B.Tech and M.Tech from IIIT‑D and graduate research at MIDAS Lab—with hands-on product development from founding a startup to building large-scale REST APIs and data pipelines. At MIDAS he led research in adversarial text generation and code-mixed hate-speech detection, earning top ranks in shared tasks, which informs his practical work on robust, data-driven features. Comfortable across the full stack, he emphasizes test-driven development, performance-minded scraping/parsing systems, and reducing turnaround time in product delivery. Based in Delhi, he brings a researcher’s rigor to production engineering and a track record of turning conceptual ideas into shipped products.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, 9.19, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, 9.19 at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, 9.76 , Department Rank 3, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, 9.76 , Department Rank 3 at Jamia Millia Islamia
English, Hindi, Urdu