Bhaskar Brahma
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBhaskar Brahma is a software engineer with nine years of experience building and hardening cloud infrastructure, currently at Microsoft where he improves safety, security, and testability for Azure Extensions. He designs and maintains core VM management utilities—contributing to the widely used azure-linux-extensions project—bringing practical cross-distro Linux support and more robust VM access tooling. Comfortable across languages (C#, Go, Python, Bash, PowerShell), he has delivered automation workers, custom script and VMAccess enhancements, and managed application runtime features for Azure Compute. His background spans systems programming on Solaris and cloud automation on AWS, reflecting a blend of low-level debugging know-how and scalable cloud engineering. Based in Irvine, CA with a CS master's from UC Irvine, he pairs production-focused engineering with an eye for operational resilience and cross-platform compatibility.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, 7.01/10, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, 7.01/10 at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.54, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.54 at University of California, Irvine
English
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
linux10
error-handling10
python10
fileio9
file-operations9
virtualization9
devops9
filesystem9
automation8
azure8
automations8
microsoft-azure8
bash7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-linux-extensions
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 24 reviews, 57 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bhaskar primarily contributed to the `azure/azure-linux-extensions` repository by modifying and maintaining core system utilities and configurations related to Linux virtual machines. They worked on updating the `vmaccess` module, which is crucial for VM access and management, including improving error handling, and modifying the `ovf-env.xml` import logic. Their contributions extend to adapting to various Linux distributions, by adding support for CentOS, improving the robustness of the code, and fixing issues related to the deployment and setup of the system.
hyper-vlinuxvirtual-machineextensionsazure
Azure/custom-script-extension-linux
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
Azure Custom Script Virtual Machine Extension :new:
Contributions:7 releases, 16 reviews, 59 commits in 3 years 4 months
custom-scriptvirtual-machineazure
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