Alec Azad
Software Engineer at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Azad is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed database and stream-processing systems, currently driving low-latency ML scoring infrastructure for Ads at Meta. He previously spent a decade at Microsoft contributing to Azure SQL’s point-in-time restore, large-scale backup pipelines and data ingestion services, delivering reliability for millions of databases. Comfortable in C++, Python and distributed systems design, Alec has led technical designs that serve thousands of requests per second with rigorous availability SLOs. He’s also an entrepreneur and early full-stack builder, having co-founded a content curation startup and implemented its scalable Django/Postgres core. An active back-end contributor to Microsoft’s Azure PowerShell project, he’s expanded database backup tooling with new cmdlets and enum-driven policy handling—evidence of his attention to operational detail and developer experience. Based in Bellevue, WA, Alec blends deep systems expertise with product-minded engineering across cloud, ads, and startup contexts.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of TorontoMasters of Mathematics, Computer Science, Masters of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (10)
powershell10
database-management10
azure-powershell10
azure10
azure-sql-database10
microsoft-azure10
azure-sql10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
arm8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Alec primarily focused on enhancing the Azure PowerShell module by modifying the handling of geo backup policies for Azure SQL databases. Their contributions involved changing the data type of a policy state to an enum, adding new cmdlets for getting and setting geo backup policies, and updating supporting files. They also adjusted the `Set-AzureRmSqlDatabaseGeoBackupPolicy` cmdlet's confirm impact and modified a test project to copy session records. This work demonstrates a focus on expanding and refining the module's database backup functionalities.
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alazad-msft/azure-powershell
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:6 pushes in 10 days
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