Ahmet Aksoy
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolAhmet Aksoy is a Senior Software Engineer based in Prague with seven years of experience building high-performance networking and system-level software in C++, C, and .NET. At Microsoft he led delivery of a namespace-aware Linux sensor for Defender for Endpoint and influenced WSL and BPF designs, while contributing socket and networking fixes to the high-profile dotnet/runtime and msquic projects. His background spans real-time packet analyzers, time-critical modules with nanosecond-level requirements, and custom protocol tooling, reflecting deep expertise in low-latency systems and networking internals. He also improves developer experience through API documentation and test infrastructure contributions, showing a rare mix of implementation, testing, and technical writing. Notably, his open-source work touches widely used projects (msquic and .NET runtime), demonstrating both production-grade engineering and community impact.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Lisans Derecesi, Computer Engineering, Lisans Derecesi, Computer Engineering at Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi
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Github Skills (27)
asynchronous10
unix10
async10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
c1110
network-programming10
networking10
c1710
asp-net10
socket10
quic10
dotnet-core10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/msquic
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Cross-platform, C implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol, exposed to C, C++, C# and Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 10 commits, 26 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ahmet primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the core functionality of the msquic project. Their contributions involved modifications to settings configurations, including the addition of a timeout for destination CID updates and enabling the Grease Quic Bit. They also worked on test infrastructure, creating a new test case to validate destination CID updates. These changes suggest a focus on improving the QUIC protocol implementation and related tooling.
securequiccppprotocolrust
dotnet/runtime
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:190 reviews, 8 commits, 165 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ahmet primarily contributed to the `.NET runtime` repository by implementing and refining socket-related functionalities, particularly focusing on Unix-based systems. Their work includes addressing bugs, adding new constructors, and refining existing code related to socket exceptions and asynchronous operations. They also modified tests and added checks for various edge cases and scenarios involving network connections, especially related to handling datagram sockets and implementing web proxy features. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of networking protocols and system-level programming within the .NET framework.
dotnetruntimelinuxcsharpxamarin
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