Khaled Henidak
Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarKhaled Henidak is a Partner Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of focused experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure at Microsoft. He brings deep backend and DevOps expertise, having contributed significant features to Kubernetes core projects—most notably dual-stack networking, API type evolution, and Azure cloud-provider rate limiting—demonstrating strong systems design and API consistency skills. His work spans both low-level API changes (protobufs, type generation) and pragmatic platform enhancements (managed disk support, etcd upgrades, health-check refactors), showing comfort across the stack from validation logic to operator integrations. Known for shipping robust, production-grade features in high-impact open-source projects, he blends enterprise delivery experience with hands-on contributions to widely used repos. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to bridge cloud-provider quirks with upstream Kubernetes design, reducing divergence while improving scalability and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (32)
kubernetes10
container10
ips10
rate-limiting10
apidoc10
kubernetes-apiserver10
testing10
net10
ip10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
networking10
infrastructure10
go10
api10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Feb 2018 - Mar 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:344 reviews, 59 commits, 34 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Khaled made significant contributions to the Kubernetes project, primarily focused on dual-stack service implementation and related validation logic. Their work involved modifying core API structures, implementing defaulting, conversion, and validation rules for dual-stack services. They also addressed issues related to clusterIPs, IP family policies, and feature flag management, including integration tests. Moreover, they refactored health check port to listen on node port addresses.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
Azure/acs-engine
Dec 2016 - Nov 2018
WE HAVE MOVED: Please join us at Azure/aks-engine!
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 107 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Khaled's primary contribution revolves around enhancements to the Kubernetes deployment configuration within the ACS Engine project, adding support for managed disks. They also integrated and updated etcd versions to support new features and removed routing table configurations when using the cilium CNI. Their work included modifications to template files, validation logic, and default configurations, indicating a focus on improving Kubernetes cluster creation and management.
azure-aksazure-functionsaks-enginejoinazure
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