Maria Tarakji

Owned end-to-end design and deployment of scalable cloud APIs for tenant lifecycle management, improving automation efficiency and reducing operational load across distributed systems.

• Designed and optimized distributed replication pipelines enabling seamless cross-region cloud data migration and improving system availability under peak load.
• Led cross-functional initiatives optimizing space utilization and database performance, conducting design reviews and implementing advanced SQL optimizations that eliminated 80% of storage waste in large-scale environments.
• Collaborated with product, infrastructure, and QA teams to analyze and resolve complex system issues in tenant registration and access control, enhancing reliability, scalability, and service uptime for enterprise customers.
• Defined testing strategies and built a modular unit-testing framework integrating TDD principles and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring maintainability, regression coverage, and production stability.
• Influenced cross-team technical direction, collaborating with architects and senior engineers to align API design, data consistency, and fault-tolerance strategies within Backup & Recovery ecosystem.
• Led cross-team architectural reviews on API design, data consistency, and failure-mode handling, influencing roadmap decisions across the Backup & Recovery ecosystem.

• Integrated Azure Cognitive Search and built backend APIs, streamlining clinical data processing.
• Developed NLP models using Word2Vec and FastText, enhancing medical text classification accuracy by 15%.