Ed Reed
Principal Software Engineer at Newport HS Robotics Group
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEd Reed is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with over 30 years of hands-on experience building reliable software across the full stack, and a decade-plus track record in storage and virtualization platforms. He’s driven stability and testability improvements in high-impact open-source projects such as the Azure cloud provider and the azuredisk CSI driver, contributing Windows support, race-condition fixes, and arm64/container build enhancements. Based in Issaquah, WA, he blends deep backend and DevOps expertise with leadership roles at Microsoft dating back to the 1990s, consistently moving between individual contributor and lead positions. Outside of work he mentors the programming subgroup for Newport Robotics (FIRST Team 948), reflecting a long-standing commitment to developing the next generation of engineers. Collectedly, his career combines low-level systems knowledge, cloud-scale storage experience, and a pragmatic focus on maintainability and testing.
9 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of California, Davis
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Github Skills (19)
caching10
kubernetes10
docker10
windows10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
powershell10
azure10
cloud-services10
unit-test10
csi10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/azuredisk-csi-driver
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Azure Disk CSI Driver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 520 reviews, 417 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to the Azure Disk CSI Driver by addressing Windows-specific issues, implementing Windows support for NodeExpandVolume, and refining existing code to work with the CSI Proxy. They also made code improvements related to resource group management and the addition of features to the V2 driver implementation. Furthermore, the user improved the build process and deployment scripts, including adding support for arm64 architecture and container builds.
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kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Cloud provider for Azure
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily focused on improving the stability and maintainability of the cloud provider for Azure. Their contributions involved bug fixes related to race conditions within the VMSS cache and closing responses, as well as improvements to logging and test infrastructure. They added mock clients to facilitate unit testing and updated the cache implementation for better performance.
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