David Esiobu
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Esiobu is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend and deployment systems for major cloud and AI platforms. He has held engineering roles at Citrix, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and now Microsoft AI, bringing deep expertise in infrastructure, file I/O, and production checkpointing for large-scale machine learning workflows. His open-source contributions to facebookresearch/metaseq show practical skill integrating cloud storage (Azure Blob), resolving NFS symlink issues, and simplifying checkpoint download logic—work that directly improves model training reliability at scale. Based in Seattle and trained in computer engineering at Georgia Tech, he blends product-grade engineering with a research-adjacent focus on data handling and DevOps. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces behind-the-scenes reliability fixes that prevent subtle batch and deployment failures.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
file-processing10
file-handling10
azure-blob-storage10
checkpoint10
file-access10
python10
fileio10
checkpointing10
devops9
nfs8
unit-testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/metaseq
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Repo for external large-scale work
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 6 commits, 10 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:David made several contributions related to infrastructure, data handling, and checkpointing. They fixed a batch overflow detection issue and removed a dependency on iopath, introducing Azure Blob storage integration, and contributing to file I/O functionalities. The user simplified checkpoint download logic, enhanced file management, and addressed NFS symlink issues, demonstrating expertise in deployment and file management.
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davides/simple-timer
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
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