Md Akbar
Software Developer at Microsoft
Uttar Pradesh, India
Summary
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Top SchoolMd Akbar is a software developer with eight years of experience at Microsoft, currently contributing to the Search Assistance & Intelligence team for Bing. He has rotated across Visual Studio and Azure DevOps divisions, bringing strong backend and DevOps skills to production-grade features and CI/CD tooling. Notably, he contributed to the widely used microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks repo, implementing features like the GitHub Release task and improving asset uploads, telemetry, and dependency handling. His foundation in computer science from MANIT (8.57 GPA) underpins a pragmatic approach to building maintainable systems that meet both client and enterprise needs. Based in Uttar Pradesh, India, he combines deep product-focused engineering with hands-on open-source collaboration inside a large-scale cloud and search environment. Colleagues would describe him as a steady implementer who surfaces practical refinements that reduce operational friction.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.57, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.57 at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
azure-pipelines10
typescript10
github-ci10
typescripts10
githubaction-workflow10
cicd10
typescript-types10
nodejs9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
testing7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:82 commits, 47 PRs, 69 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Md primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Azure Pipelines tasks. They were involved in implementing new features, such as the GitHub Release task, and refactoring existing code for improved functionality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating change logs and handling asset uploads, suggesting contributions in CI/CD pipeline tasks. Their work also extended to handling dependencies and telemetry, pointing to broader contributions beyond core logic.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
mdmdakbar/WebApplication
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:171 releases, 11 PRs, 126 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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