Qasim Sarfraz
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolQasim Sarfraz is a software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, system software, and production Kubernetes deployments. Currently at Microsoft, he focuses on Linux, eBPF, containers and Kubernetes while maintaining prominent CNCF projects such as Inspektor Gadget and the CoreDNS header plugin. His open-source work spans eBPF-based tracing, networking and security improvements—contributing to projects like Minikube, containerd and Buildx—and shows a strong emphasis on code consistency and maintainability. Previously he ran Kubernetes in production across multiple clouds, designed networking software at PLUMgrid, and automated complex IoT and data-platform deployments. Colleagues describe him as self-driven with a get-things-done mindset and a knack for turning low-level systems insight into reliable, observable platforms. Based in Hamburg, he pairs hands-on engineering with active OSS stewardship, often tackling the gritty eBPF/tracing problems many teams avoid.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation of Science, Pre-Engineering, Foundation of Science, Pre-Engineering at Vision Science College, GujratBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
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Github Skills (18)
docker10
ebpf10
go10
dockerfile10
docker-compose9
kubernetes9
bpf9
amazon-iam9
kubernetes-pods9
nginx6
logging6
bitbucket6
docker-swarm6
docker-machine6
ruby6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
inspektor-gadget/inspektor-gadget
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:594 reviews, 82 commits, 325 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Qasim's contributions primarily focused on modifying and enhancing eBPF-based tools within the Inspektor Gadget project. They updated several files related to tracing capabilities, networking, and security, specifically modifying the use of mount namespace filters. A significant portion of their work involved uniforming map names and structures in multiple files, demonstrating a focus on code consistency and maintainability in the eBPF programs. The changes also touched upon the implementation of tracing for TCP connections, auditing seccomp events, and file system operations.
bpfgadgetskubernetes-applicationskinvolkhackto
Lotto24/aws-ecr-http-proxy
Dec 2017 - May 2022
A nginx based pull/push through proxy for AWS ECR with support of cache and token refresh.
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 25 commits in 4 years 6 months
nginxpushdocker-imageproxyecr
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