Arvind Agarwal
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Summary
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Top SchoolArvind Agarwal is a software engineer with five years of experience who began his engineering journey after completing an MTech at IIT Guwahati and joining Microsoft. He specializes in backend and DevOps work for Linux-based cloud tooling, notably contributing to Azure's linux-extensions where he improved VM backup, resource disk detection, file locking, and build processes. Based in Kolkata, he combines strong Linux systems knowledge with practical backup and logging improvements that reduce operational risk. At Microsoft he continues to learn new technologies while delivering reliable infrastructure enhancements. His hands-on open-source contributions reflect a focus on robust, production-ready solutions rather than experimental prototypes.
5 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (16)
filesystem10
file-management10
backup10
linux10
sys10
python10
scripting9
devops9
bash9
shell9
script9
sh9
azure8
microsoft-azure8
dockers3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-linux-extensions
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 27 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Arvind primarily focused on enhancing the Azure Linux Extensions, specifically related to file system freeze and backup functionalities within the VMBackup component. They implemented changes to improve resource disk detection and size calculation. In addition to these changes, the user made updates to the build process, file locking mechanisms, and general logging practices. These changes indicate a strong understanding of Linux systems, backup processes, and DevOps practices.
hyper-vlinuxvirtual-machineextensionsazure
mearvind/azure-linux-extensions
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure
Contributions:83 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 8 months
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