Samira Tasharofi

Samira Tasharofi is a seasoned senior staff software engineer at LinkedIn, focusing on the ads platform backend as a tech lead in the Ad Serving team.

Prior to her current role, Samira contributed to Microsoft as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on developing a distributed logging infrastructure utilized by various teams for diagnostics and telemetry purposes.

She holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with her research focusing on testing concurrent programs, particularly actor programs.

During her academic journey, Samira also earned a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from the University of Tehran and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the same institution.

Her industry experience includes internships at Microsoft, where she worked on the CloudDev project, concentrating on leveraging cloud environments to enhance software build process performance by creating efficient algorithms for distributing and parallelizing the build process.

Throughout her career, Samira has held various roles, including Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer II, Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, and Research Intern at reputed organizations like LinkedIn, Microsoft, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.