Elaheh Dehghani
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElaheh Dehghani is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a decade-plus background in systems and embedded software, advancing from C++ programmer and lecturer roles to lead engineering positions at Intel and product work across startups. She brings strong systems-architecture experience, demonstrated by contributions to the high-profile microsoft/azurelinux repository where she implemented secure-boot support, squashfs integration, SELinux improvements, and build-system enhancements. Comfortable operating at the intersection of security, kernel-level features, and release engineering, she balances low-level Linux expertise with practical delivery of production-ready tooling. Her trajectory shows consistent progress into architecture and leadership while retaining hands-on coding, and she has a master’s in software engineering underpinning her technical rigor. An often-overlooked strength is her ability to reframe risky kernel changes into maintainable patches and build-process fixes that simplify downstream integration.
3 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Software Engineering, MS, Computer Software Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University
English, Persian
Github Skills (12)
kernel10
build-system10
linux-kernel10
makefile10
architecture9
architectures9
system9
bash8
script8
toolchain7
management7
go7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Feb 2023 - Jul 2026
General purpose Linux OS for Azure
Role in this project:
System Architect / Software Architect
System Architect / Software ArchitectContributions:62 reviews, 54 PRs, 127 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Elaheh primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the Azure Linux OS. Their work included adding the mstflint kernel module for secure boot functionality, then subsequently reverting the changes and reintroducing them as a patch to kernel-hci. Further contributions include integrating support for the squashfs image format, improving SELinux configurations, and upgrading system utilities like policycoreutils. Additionally, the user contributed to build system improvements such as adding a new compress-toolchain-final-rpms target to the makefile, increasing TLS handshake timeout, and adding a kernel-srpm-macros package.
azurelinux
ellie-di/CBL-Mariner
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 21 days
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