Farhad Alizada
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolFarhad Alizada is a pragmatic software engineer with four years of focused experience building and automating cloud-native developer tooling at Microsoft and enterprise solutions at EPAM. He has driven reliability and release efficiency for Azure API Management and contributed to high-profile open-source .NET projects like the dotnet SDK and MSBuild, adding features and fixes that improve build stability and tooling telemetry. Comfortable across backend systems, automation, and CI/CD, he has also designed testing frameworks and led security hardening for internal engineering tools. Previously he led small engineering teams and architected scalable, performant applications for startups and consulting clients, bridging product and implementation. Based in Prague and grounded in an applied mathematics background from MSU, he combines analytical rigor with hands-on engineering and a knack for turning build and release pain points into automated, production-ready solutions.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, Azerbaijani
Github Skills (28)
net-sdk10
msbuild10
azure-api-management10
automation10
sdk10
dotnet-sdk10
arm-templates10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
automations10
csharp10
cli10
back-end-development9
dotnet9
dotnet-new9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-api-management-devops-resource-kit
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Azure API Management DevOps Resource Kit
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 133 reviews, 41 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Farhad primarily contributed to the `azure-api-management-devops-resource-kit` repository by adding features related to group management and policy configuration. Their work involved modifying C# code files and test files to integrate new functionalities, specifically adding the ability to include group templates and align policy behaviors across different extractors. The commits also show that the user addressed API operation representation examples and updated parameter settings for extraction processes.
azure-api-managementdevops
dotnet/msbuild
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:351 reviews, 90 PRs, 93 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Farhad primarily contributed to fixing issues related to the Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild). Their work focused on correcting UI language override functionality, unquoting target parameters for proper parsing, and improving build telemetry. The user also implemented fixes in CommandLineSwitches and Traits components and worked on build property telemetry. These changes suggest involvement in core engine improvements.
build-enginedotnetmsbuildvisual-studiomicrosoft
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