Anh Vo
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAnh Vo is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience driving reliability and performance for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure at Microsoft. With a PhD in Computer Science and a strong background in MPI and large-scale verification research, Anh blends deep distributed-systems theory with hands-on engineering for cloud infrastructure and AI platform workloads. At Microsoft they’ve shipped improvements to Azure Linux initialization and telemetry—contributing to the canonical cloud-init project—and focused on robustness, observability, and performant HPC/Big Compute services. Known for pragmatic debugging and tooling (context managers, decorators, enhanced event publishing), Anh reliably turns complex, large-scale system requirements into production-ready, diagnosable solutions. Based in Redmond, they bridge academic rigor and production engineering to improve how Linux and ML workloads run in the cloud.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at George Mason University
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (9)
azure10
logging10
microsoft-azure10
devops10
telemetry10
cloud-init10
python10
system-design8
bash4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/cloud-init
Jun 2020 - Apr 2024
Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:113 reviews, 21 PRs, 89 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Anh primarily contributed to the Azure cloud-init data source, adding comprehensive logging and telemetry for improved diagnostics and monitoring of instance initialization. They implemented several context managers and decorators to capture events and system information. Furthermore, the user modified and enhanced the Hyper-V KVP reporting handler, contributing to event publishing and file operations. Their work also included adjustments to timeout configurations, along with improvements to the overall robustness and efficiency of Azure-related functionality.
gcppythonagnosticinfrastructure-managementupstream
anhvoms/cloud-init
Jul 2020 - Sep 2023
Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
Contributions:42 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 2 months
gcpcloud-initcloud-instanceupstreamcloud
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