Moustafa Moustafa
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMoustafa Moustafa is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft in Redmond with eight years of experience building and hardening Linux offerings for Azure, focusing on performance, reliability, and new Linux use cases in cloud environments. He combines strong OOP design and problem-solving skills with hands-on backend and DevOps work, including notable contributions to the widely used cloud-init project where he improved Azure data source reliability, IMDS retry/error logging, and optimized log delivery to KVP. A Bachelor's in Computer and Systems Engineering complements a broader scientific grounding in physics and mathematics, reflecting a methodical, systems-oriented approach. Known for pragmatic debugging improvements and telemetry-aware optimizations, he excels at turning low-level platform pain points into robust, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineering at Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria UniversityPhysics, Mathematics, Chemistry and English, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and English at Gamal Abd El Naser
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (6)
azure10
logging10
microsoft-azure10
python10
cloud-init10
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/cloud-init
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Moustafa contributed to improving the cloud-init project, primarily focusing on the Azure data source integration. Their work involved enhancing error logging and retry mechanisms for IMDS interactions, improving debugging capabilities. Additionally, they implemented functionality to log the dhclient error stream and added the ability to push cloud-init logs to KVP, including optimizations for size and efficient multiple pushes.
gcppythonagnosticinfrastructure-managementupstream
Moustafa-Moustafa/pulp_rpm
May 2023 - Mar 2025
RPM support for Pulp Platform
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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