Roaa Sakr
Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRoaa Sakr is a Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft with over a decade of experience building OS and edge infrastructure, currently leading the Mariner Operator Edge team to deliver Linux-based host platforms for operator and 5G workloads. She combines deep systems expertise from Windows core OS and location services with practical cloud-native and DevOps skills, having helped build EdgeOS Kubernetes and maintained Akri, a CNCF project for IoT device discovery. Known for improving code quality and maintainability, she has driven refactors, crate migrations, and dependency optimizations in open-source Rust projects. Based in Kirkland, WA, Roaa pairs architectural leadership with hands-on implementation—designing privacy-aware, power-efficient location pipelines in the past and now shaping operator-facing edge infrastructure.
5 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Nova Southeastern UniversityBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Ain Shams University
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (15)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
error-handling10
refactoring10
rust10
refactor10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
software-quality9
automation9
automations9
docker8
dockers8
edge-computing8
onvif7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
project-akri/akri
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
A Kubernetes Resource Interface for the Edge
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:156 reviews, 88 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Roaa primarily focused on refactoring the project and improving the codebase. They migrated the project to use the `anyhow` crate, replacing the deprecated `failure` crate, and addressed merge conflicts and version updates. Furthermore, the user updated the toolchain version and addressed clippy errors, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability. They also removed redundant hyper dependencies, optimizing the project's dependencies.
kuberneteskubernetes-resourceedge
romoh/akri
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
A Kubernetes Resource Interface for the Edge
Contributions:24 PRs, 159 pushes, 37 branches in 1 year 5 months
kubernetes-resourcenamespacesedgek8skubernetes
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