Ateeq Sharfuddin
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAteeq Sharfuddin is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience leading cloud and AI engineering at Microsoft and a track record of scaling security-focused startups from founding stages to Series A. He blends deep systems engineering—evidenced by substantive contributions to the high-profile osquery project improving Windows instrumentation, filesystem, and authenticode support—with product and people leadership roles including VP of Engineering at SCYTHE. Comfortable moving between hands-on back-end work and strategic architecture, he has repeatedly driven cross-platform robustness and operational reliability in security and cloud domains. His academic background spans advanced computer science studies at Carnegie Mellon and George Washington University, reflecting a strong foundation in algorithms and software systems. Not obvious from titles alone, he has a history of joining early-stage teams and staying through major valuation inflection points, showing both technical depth and entrepreneurial grit.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science / Algorithms and Theory, Master of Science - MS Computer Science / Algorithms and Theory at The George Washington UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science / Software and Societal Systems, Master of Science - MS Computer Science / Software and Societal Systems at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer ScienceBachelor of Science Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Mathematics and Computer Science at Marymount University
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Github Skills (9)
filesystem10
c-language10
ws-api10
winapi10
cprogramming-language10
file-operations10
fileio10
wp-api10
sql8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
osquery/osquery
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 reviews, 11 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ateeq primarily contributed to the `osquery` project by fixing bugs and improving the Windows-specific implementations. Their work included modifying code related to UTF-8 and UTF-16 conversions, enhancing file system operations, and updating the `chassis_info` table. Additionally, the user added catalog file information to the `authenticode` table and made improvements to registry and certificates implementations. These changes demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the project's functionality across different operating systems.
monitoringoperating-systemsqlsecurityintrusion-detection
scythe-io/sdk
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
SCYTHE Software Development Kit
Contributions:3 releases, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
development-kitscythesoftware-development-kit
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