Ali Kanso
Principal Software Engineer At Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Kanso is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with a decade of experience architecting highly available, cloud-native systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Software Engineering from Concordia University and spent his career bridging research and production—designing HA solutions at Ericsson and IBM before moving to leadership roles at Microsoft. His expertise spans Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos, CI/CD automation, and stochastic modeling for reliability, reflecting a rare mix of rigorous academic grounding and hands-on cloud engineering. Known for turning formal availability models into practical automation, he focuses on making distributed systems resilient at scale while mentoring teams on operability and design trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Software Engineering, 4.1, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Software Engineering, 4.1 at Concordia University
Github Skills (61)
kubernetes10
pytorch10
parallel10
python10
rllib10
data-science10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
apache10
reinforcement-learning10
java10
scaling10
llm-inference10
llm10
hyperparameter-optimization10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
akanso/fun-with-go
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
A repo to play with Concurrency in Go
Contributions:10 PRs, 2 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
golangconcurrency
akanso/kuberay
Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributed modules to ray
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 4 months
ray
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