Evan Baker
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Baker is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on container networking, Kubernetes, and eBPF, currently building network observability (Microsoft Retina) and the Azure CNI for AKS. He has driven core infrastructure work at Microsoft—adding Cilium-powered AKS features, dynamic pod subnetting, and Azure overlay networking—and contributes to key Azure repos like AgentBaker and azure-container-networking. His background spans cloud and DevOps roles at Capital One where he helped productionize Kubernetes offerings, and an early mechanical engineering foundation that informs his systems-thinking approach. Notably, he has improved build tooling, introduced golangci-lint and context-based refactors, and optimized CNI versioning and caching for Windows VHD pipelines, blending practical release engineering with deep networking expertise. Based in Nashville, he pairs hands-on coding with cross-team delivery experience to ship reliable, scalable networking for cloud-native platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at University of Rochester
Spanish, English
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
networking10
cicd10
go10
agent10
kubernetes-pods10
automated-build10
network10
osdev9
vhd9
bash9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-container-networking
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Azure Container Networking Solutions for Linux and Windows Containers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1877 reviews, 159 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the internal infrastructure of the repository, modifying build tools and dependencies to support the development of Azure Container Networking solutions. They updated the build tools to incorporate golangci-lint for code analysis. Additionally, the user updated go modules, including adding new tools for build, and refactored the project's codebase to transition from exit/err channels to context and updated dependencies. The changes suggest a focus on improving the development workflow and code quality.
containerswindowscontainer-networkingkubernetes-networkinglinux
Azure/AgentBaker
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Agent Baker is aiming to provide a centralized, portable k8s agent node provisioning lib as well as rich support on different OS image with optimized k8s binaries.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:74 reviews, 12 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Evan's contributions primarily focus on updating and managing versions of CNI (Container Network Interface) plugins within the `azure/agentbaker` repository. They modified shell scripts and configuration files to include the latest CNI versions and corresponding Azure mirror URLs, especially in relation to Windows VHD builds. The commits also involve adding caching mechanisms for Azure CNI overlays, optimizing the build process and ensuring the agent's compatibility with various Kubernetes versions.
provisioningvhdagentcloud-initaiming
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