Chief project engineer of the Institute of Information Technology- PhD Makrufa Hajırahimova is 60 years old. In 1978, she graduated from Baku finance and credit technical school and at the same year she commenced her professional career as a laboratory assistant at the Automated Control Systems Department under the Institute of Cybernetics of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

In 1979 she entered the “Automation of production processes” faculty of Azerbaijan Institute of Petroleum and Chemistry named after M.Azizbeyov, which she graduated from in 1985. At the same year, she continued her activity as a part-programming engineer. She worked at the post of senior and leading engineer, also actively participated in software development of projects such as “Electronic document management”, “Electronic Archive”, “Execution control tracking system”.In 2002-2011 she worked as a chief of sector at the ANAS Institute of Information Technologies. Since 2011 she is project chief engineer. She teaches at the Training Innovation Center of the institute.

She conducted research on “Developing e-document intelligent processing and management system in the framework of e-government” in the direction of "Developing intelligent corporate network (CN) and systems" defended the thesis on the “Development of models and algorithms for intelligent management of text document in e-government” in the specialty 3338.01 - System analysis, control and information processing at the Institute of Information Technology of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and received PhD in Technical sciences in 2013.

Currently she conducts research on the "Big data", and is actively involved in the development of the "e-Science" software project under the "E-Azerbaijan" program.

She is the author of more than 70 papers, some of which are published in the international journals with high impct factor.