Shankar Seal
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bothell, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShankar Seal is a seasoned software engineer at Microsoft with over two decades of experience building core Windows OS and networking components, currently owning parts of the TCP/IP stack and eBPF for Windows. He has deep technical breadth across kernel drivers, services, cloud services, and container and SDN networking features including firewall, IPsec, and VPN subsystems. Shankar actively contributes to open source efforts—most notably enhancements to microsoft/ebpf-for-windows—where he implemented map management APIs, refined program serialization, and addressed subtle runtime issues like ring buffer subscriber logic. His background combines an IIT Kanpur master's in computer science with long-term, release-driven work on Windows networking, giving him rare institutional knowledge of the platform. Colleagues rely on him for solving low-level protocol and platform interoperability challenges while shipping production-quality networking features.
5 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurBachelors degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelors degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur UniversitySt. Lawrence High School
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Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/ebpf-for-windows
May 2021 - Jan 2023
eBPF implementation that runs on top of Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1239 reviews, 72 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Shankar primarily contributed to the implementation of eBPF features within the Windows environment. Their work included the development of APIs for map creation and management, addressing code review comments, and improving the program information serialization. Further contributions involved adding and refining helper functions for various eBPF functionalities and addressing potential issues such as ring buffer subscriber logic and code integrity.
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shankarseal/ebpf-for-windows
May 2021 - Mar 2025
eBPF implementation that runs on top of Windows
Contributions:22 PRs, 1018 pushes, 269 branches in 3 years 11 months
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