Omair Majid
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolOmair Majid is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with 17 years of experience building and hardening runtimes, SDKs, and CI/CD for cloud-native .NET and OpenJDK ecosystems. He focuses on low-level compatibility and portability—fixing compiler and memory issues, adding cgroup v2 support, and enabling arm64 builds—while also automating build and test infrastructure across OpenShift and source-built SDKs. His open-source work includes substantive contributions to high-profile projects like dotnet/runtime, dotnet/sdk, and aspnetcore, where he improved cross-platform reliability and native debug symbol handling. Based in Mississauga and educated in computer engineering at the University of Toronto, he blends systems-level curiosity with practical DevOps discipline, often surfacing subtle build-edge bugs before they reach production.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
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Github contributions (5)
redhat-developer/s2i-dotnetcore
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
.NET Core OpenShift images
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:72 reviews, 16 commits, 34 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Omair primarily focused on automating and improving the testing infrastructure for the .NET Core OpenShift images. Their contributions include adding new tests to validate released images against an asp-net-hello-world application, and integrating these tests into the build process. The user also worked on creating imagestream tests to validate the integrity of the imagestream definitions, which are crucial for deploying the images to OpenShift. Furthermore, the user modified the build scripts to support the testing of multiple versions and operating systems like Fedora, demonstrating a focus on cross-platform compatibility and release automation.
dotnetdocker-imageopenshiftnet-corekubernetes
dotnet/runtime
Jan 2017 - Sep 2022
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:90 reviews, 118 commits, 130 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Omair primarily contributed to the .NET runtime project, addressing various low-level issues. They focused on fixing compilation errors, handling deprecation warnings related to system libraries like `sysctl.h` and implementing cgroup v2 support, and ensuring compatibility with newer compiler versions such as clang 10 and GCC 11. The user also worked on adding a destructor for a class and addressing memory leaks across the codebase.
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