Azad Abbasi
Senior Software Engineer at Indeed.com
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAzad Abbasi is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and stabilizing cloud-native services, currently based in Bothell and working at Indeed after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft. He has deep back-end expertise across .NET, C#, and Java, contributing to high-profile Azure SDKs—most notably Azure Digital Twins and IoT SDKs—where he implemented core APIs, bug fixes, protocol improvements, and release automation. Azad blends hands-on coding with automation and DevOps work, having scripted image and VM provisioning for Azure DevTestLab and improved build and deployment pipelines. He is comfortable navigating complex distributed systems and protocol-level issues (AMQP/MQTT/HTTPS) and often focuses on making SDKs more robust and production-ready. With an MS in Computer Science and experience teaching at university level, he brings both technical depth and an aptitude for mentoring and documentation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of OregonBachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology at Isfahan University of Technology
English, Persian
Github Skills (46)
debugging10
debug10
apidoc10
amqp10
azure-sdk10
mqtt10
net10
http10
dotnet10
internet-of-things10
data-serialization10
microsoft-azure10
java10
azure-iothub10
mqttnet10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-iot-sdk-csharp
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
A C# SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 301 reviews, 81 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Azad primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements within the C# SDK for Azure IoT services. Their contributions included resolving issues related to file upload SAS URI generation, ensuring correct setup of client options within constructors, and fixing exception mapping issues. They also made updates to the AMQP library and documentation, indicating a focus on improving the SDK's stability and functionality.
dotnetazure-iotsdkcsharpmicrosoft-azure
Azure/azure-devtestlab
Mar 2016 - Dec 2019
Azure DevTestLab artifacts, scripts and samples
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:31 commits, 20 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Azad contributed significantly to the automation and configuration aspects of the Azure DevTestLab project. They implemented PowerShell scripts to install and configure software like SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and Chocolatey packages within virtual machines. Furthermore, they modified scripts related to image factory processes, including image distribution, cleanup, and updates, likely automating infrastructure tasks. The user also focused on removing appx packages from Windows images, indicating a focus on streamlining the environment.
artifactsazure
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.