Summary
Haris Ansari is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building storage, networking, and distributed systems for cloud-scale platforms, currently on Azure Core Compute Infrastructure at Microsoft. He brings deep systems expertise in C++, C#, and Python, with hands-on experience across storage protocols (NFS, iSCSI, FC), databases like Cassandra and RocksDB, and networking technologies including TCP/IP, BGP, VxLAN and virtualization. His career includes contributions to Azure SQL DataWarehouse storage, Oracle OCI object storage, and the core data path at Nutanix, reflecting strong low-latency, high-throughput storage design skills. Academic work at NC State involved implementing multi-tenant L2 data-center overlays and telemetry dashboards, showing he blends research-led approaches with production engineering. Based in Redmond, he pairs practical Linux tooling and testing experience (LTP, dd, TeraSort) with a knack for making complex, distributed storage systems reliable at scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia
Hindi, Urdu, English