CV
Basics
| Name | Pooya Rostami Mazrae |
| Label | Software Engineering Researcher |
| pooya.rostami.m@gmail.com | |
| Url | https://pooya-rostami.github.io |
| Summary | PhD researcher in software engineering focused on software repository mining, empirical studies of CI/CD and DevOps workflows, and automation ecosystems. |
Education
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2021.10 - 2026.06 Mons, Belgium
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2019.09 - 2021.09 Tehran, Iran
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2015.09 - 2019.06 Tehran, Iran
Work
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2025.01 - 2026.01 Cloud Engineer / Data Analyst
Necko Technologies
Engineer and data analyst working on cloud-native FinOps platforms on AWS.
- Engineered a FinOps cost optimization platform based on AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR v2).
- Designed and deployed serverless backends using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, and S3.
- Developed RESTful APIs and optimized relational data models.
- Led backend architecture design for cloud-native systems.
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2021.10 - 2026.04 PhD Researcher
University of Mons (UMONS)
Funded PhD researcher at the Software Engineering Lab (SEL).
- Doctoral research on the evolution of GitHub Actions automation workflows and CI/CD ecosystems.
- Large-scale software repository mining using GitHub REST and GraphQL APIs.
- Mixed-method empirical studies combining quantitative analysis and qualitative coding.
- Production of peer-reviewed publications, datasets, replication packages, and open-source tools.
Volunteer
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2026.01 - Present -
2025.11 - 2026.01 Junior Program Committee Member
International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt 2026)
Junior PC member for TechDebt 2026.
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2023.05 - Present -
2023.03 - 2023.03 Lecturer
PhD Month (UMONS)
Delivered a full-session lecture on qualitative research methodology for PhD students.
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2022.04 - 2022.09
Publications
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2024 gawd: A Differencing Tool for GitHub Actions Workflows
Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
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2023 On the usage, co-usage and migration of CI/CD tools: a qualitative analysis
Empirical Software Engineering
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2023 The GitHub Development Workflow Automation Ecosystems
Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics, Springer
Projects
- 2024.01 - Present
gawd - GitHub Actions Workflow Differ
Open-source Python library and CLI tool to compute structural differences between GitHub Actions workflows using syntax-aware comparison.
Awards
- 2022
ICSME Distinguished Paper Award
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
- 2022
MSR Best Hackathon Paper Award
Mining Software Repositories
Certificates
| AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate | ||
| Amazon Web Services | 2025-05 |
| AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner | ||
| Amazon Web Services | 2025-02 |
| The Power of Statistics | ||
| Coursera | 2023-09 |