Hosam Shobak
Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolHosam Shobak is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud and backend systems, currently based in the Greater Seattle Area and working at Palantir. He combines an electronics engineering foundation from The American University in Cairo with a MS in Computer and Software Systems from the University of Washington, bridging hardware-aware thinking and large-scale software design. At Microsoft he contributed to Azure App Services and to the widely used Azure WebJobs SDK, implementing efficient hybrid blob-polling strategies and improving telemetry and reliability. Known for digging into low-level performance and operational details, he brings a pragmatic, test-focused approach to shipping resilient distributed systems in production.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer and Software Systems, Masters, Computer and Software Systems at University of WashingtonElectronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The American University in Cairo
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (9)
azure-webjobs-sdk10
azure-functions10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
testing9
netframework9
cloud-computing8
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Azure WebJobs SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hosam focused on improving the Azure WebJobs SDK, specifically addressing blob polling and related strategies. Contributions include implementing a hybrid polling strategy that combines log-based and scan-based approaches for efficiency. They fixed test case failures and build warnings related to the new polling strategy, and revisited naming validation for storage blobs, tables, and queues. Additionally, the user added user agent information to storage requests for telemetry.
azure-functionssdkwebjobsazure-webjobs-sdkazure
projectkudu/ARMExplorerSpecs
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 6 months
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