Saeed Noursalehi
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaeed Noursalehi is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a long history of engineering roles at Microsoft, GitHub, and Meta, currently based in Seattle. He specializes in backend systems and platform engineering, with notable contributions to Microsoft’s high-scale VFSForGit project improving index management, I/O timeout handling, and reliability for enterprise Git workflows. Saeed’s career spans both hands-on development and program management, reflecting an ability to bridge product requirements with deep technical execution across large-scale developer tooling. He brings practical expertise in distributed file-system interactions and platform robustness, and a track record of shipping reliability-focused fixes in widely used open-source infrastructure. Trained in computer engineering at UIUC, he combines systems-level rigor with experience across startups and major tech organizations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (11)
git10
filesystem10
internals10
csharp10
file-operations10
fileio10
dotnet-core10
performance-optimization9
multithreading8
refactor7
refactoring7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VFSForGit
Feb 2017 - Dec 2018
Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 96 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Saeed's commits primarily involve modifying core system components related to the virtual file system's internal workings and its interaction with the Git environment. The changes include improvements to the index management system for more efficient file size and time updates. They also made reliability updates such as improved handling of I/O timeouts and other bug fixes.
version-controllibgit2scalevirtual-file-systementerprise-scale
sanoursa/VFSForGit
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale
Contributions:53 pushes, 25 branches in 4 months
version-controllibgit2scalevirtual-file-systementerprise-scale
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