Abder Benbachir
Software Engineer at Dropbox
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbder Benbachir is a software engineer with 10 years of experience focused on performance, monitoring, and distributed systems, currently building next-generation distributed tracing at Dropbox using Go, OpenTracing/OpenTelemetry, and Honeycomb. Previously at Microsoft he modernized Azure's Linux monitoring agent in C++, improving reliability and observability for large-scale cloud deployments. He has hands-on DevOps and backend experience maintaining the Azure linux-extensions/OMS agent—automating packaging, versioning, and log-size reductions that improved build and telemetry workflows. Trained as a computer engineer with a master's in cloud virtualization from Polytechnique Montréal, he blends systems-level rigor with practical automation skills. Colleagues rely on him for shipping production-grade telemetry and diagnostic tooling that surfaces hard-to-find performance issues. He brings a pragmatic, observability-first mindset that turns distributed-system complexity into actionable insight.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
French, English
Github Skills (17)
scripting10
linux10
bash10
release-management10
automation10
script10
sh10
automations10
shell10
build-management10
cicd9
python9
azure8
microsoft-azure8
git6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-linux-extensions
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 48 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Abder primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Azure Linux Extensions, particularly the OMS agent. Their contributions included updating OMS agent versions, fixing logging issues, reducing log sizes, and automating extension packaging and version management. They also introduced scripts for version updates and packaging improvements, demonstrating a strong understanding of build processes and automation. They also made minor changes to testing files.
hyper-vlinuxvirtual-machineextensionsazure
abenbachir/utils
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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