Suraiya Hameed
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolSuraiya Hameed is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native networking, security, and database connectivity solutions. She has driven features at Tigera and contributed to the widely used Project Calico Go library—adding BGP community and port support across IPv4/IPv6 and hardening validators—while currently working on distributed systems at Microsoft. Her background includes designing PII-compliant IAM microservices on AWS, developing open-source client drivers (Node.js and JDBC) with Kerberos and encryption features, and implementing performance-focused driver capabilities like bulk load and XA timeouts. Comfortable across backend systems, networking, and infrastructure-as-code, she combines production-grade engineering with deep protocol-level understanding that often surfaces in open-source contributions.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BE, CSE, BE, CSE at Vel TechMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Tamil, Urdu
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Github Skills (17)
validations10
validation10
networking10
go10
bgp10
apidoc9
api9
yaml8
kubernetes7
kubernetes-pods7
nodejs6
sql6
azure-sql-database6
odbc6
stored-procedures6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/libcalico-go
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Golang Calico library functions: https://www.projectcalico.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 20 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Suraiya primarily focused on enhancing the Calico Go library by adding support for BGP communities and ports. They implemented and validated the features, including IPv4 and IPv6 peer configurations, and ensuring correct parsing and handling of IP addresses and ports. Furthermore, the user addressed and fixed several validation issues related to community and prefix advertisement configurations within the BGP configuration spec. Their contributions included updates to the validator and model packages.
golangcalico
Suraiya-Hameed/mssql-jdbc
Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:127 pushes, 59 branches, 11 tags in 1 year 7 months
connectivitysql-servermysqlsqldatabase-connectivity
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