Binu Philip
Principal Engineer at Microsoft
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBinu Philip is a Principal Engineer with 12+ years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and infrastructure, currently at Microsoft after a decade at Arista Networks. His background spans kernel and filesystem development at Sun Microsystems, large-scale search and ad matching at Yahoo, and performance architecture for server stacks at Zynga, reflecting deep systems-level expertise. Binu combines a hands-on engineering mindset with a passion for learning and mentoring, consistently shipping stability and efficiency improvements across complex stacks. Based in Fremont, CA, he thrives on waking up each day to solve, learn, or meet someone interesting—bringing curiosity-driven rigor to pragmatic engineering decisions. An often overlooked strength is his longevity across projects and technologies, giving him rare perspective on reliability and performance trade-offs over decades of production systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of technology Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of technology Computer Science and Engineering at College of Engineering TrivandrumB.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at University of Kerala
Github Skills (9)
azure10
linux10
testing9
automation-framework9
cloudtesting7
e2e-testing7
systemd5
system4
init3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
binujp/lisa-superbench
Mar 2025 - Jul 2025
LISA is developed and maintained by Microsoft, to empower Linux validation.
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
binujp/azurelinux-ft2
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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