Shiraz Saleem
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShiraz Saleem is a software engineer with 10 years of deep systems and networking experience, now building at Microsoft after a long tenure at Intel focused on RDMA stacks for Ethernet NICs, SmartNICs and IPUs. He brings expertise in high-performance networking, TCP/IP, Linux kernel and device driver development, combined with strong systems debug and pattern recognition skills that help surface subtle performance and reliability issues. His background spans SoC validation and systems engineering, giving him a hardware-aware perspective that informs robust software design for data-plane and kernel-level components. Based in Austin, he contributes to open source and technical writing, translating complex protocols into maintainable implementations and documentation. Notably, his career reflects sustained ownership of RDMA technology across chipset to host software, a niche blend that accelerates production readiness for high-throughput networking platforms.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
Github Skills (50)
distro10
upstream10
aix10
linux10
linux-kernel10
manjaro10
daemons10
userspace10
rdma9
linux-distribution9
busybox9
infiniband9
zen9
raspberry9
oracle-linux9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shirazsaleem/linux
Sep 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 16 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 8 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
shirazsaleem/rdma-core
May 2021 - Dec 2021
RDMA core userspace libraries and daemons
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
daemonsrdmauserspaceuserspace-libraries
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