Osama Esmail
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOsama Esmail is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with three years of professional experience building secure, high-performance systems across cloud and edge environments. He contributed to Microsoft Azure Linux by fixing ARM64 build breaks and upgrading critical dependencies, and at Microsoft he automated pipeline workflows and patched hundreds of packages to reduce test failures and resolve CVEs. His background includes low-latency C++ image-processing work that doubled frame rates and hands-on experience deploying and hardening Docker containers for platform stability. At Capital One he continues to apply cloud-native tooling and automation to production systems, blending backend engineering with security-focused build practices. Comfortable across languages—Golang, Python, C++—he bridges research prototypes and production-grade releases, having shipped features from AR demos to vendor-mirror pipelines. Collected training in both Computer Science and Mathematics from UIUC gives him a strong foundation for algorithmic problem solving and systems design.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
linux10
build-system10
dependency-analysis10
ocaml9
arm9
php8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
microsoft/azurelinux
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 reviews, 45 commits, 108 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Osama focused on modifying the build process and dependencies within the Azure Linux OS. They addressed build breaks for ARM64 architecture related to bond and PHP. The user also upgraded various OCaml packages and addressed dependency issues, including the integration of system timezone data. These changes suggest work related to software builds, dependencies, and system configuration.
cdrappliancesvmslinux-oslinux
osamaesmailmsft/CBL-Mariner
Aug 2022 - Sep 2023
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Contributions:210 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 1 month
vmsapplianceslinux-oslinuxedge
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