Syeda Aziz
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSyeda Aziz is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, large-scale infrastructure and platform services at Microsoft in Redmond. She has driven design and delivery for Azure VMware Solution and Azure Monitor for SAP, combining deep systems engineering with product-facing PaaS experience. Earlier work as an Apache Traffic Server committer and Yahoo contributor shows a strong background in high-performance networking, where she implemented overridable configs, new APIs, and reliability-focused refactors. Syeda’s roots in low-level optimization—from image processing on constrained devices to TCP performance analysis—give her a practical edge when tuning cloud services for efficiency and reliability. She holds an MS in Computer Science from UIUC and blends research-minded rigor with production-first execution.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
HSC Science, HSC Science at Holy Cross College, DhakaMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
English, Bengali
Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
http10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
apidoc9
api9
openssl8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
May 2015 - Jun 2018
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:158 commits, 294 PRs, 97 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Syeda's commits primarily focused on enhancing the configuration and functionality of the Apache Traffic Server. They modified the codebase to allow for overridable thresholds for slow logs, and other configuration parameters. They also introduced new APIs, including those for overridable configuration settings and the addition of a function for retrieving the TSVConn from TSHttpSsn. The user also refactored code to improve the reliability, and they addressed various Coverity issues related to memory management, ensuring that termination occurs immediately without memory cleanup.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
persiaAziz/trafficserver
May 2015 - Jun 2018
Mirror of Apache Traffic Server
Contributions:14 PRs, 576 pushes, 178 branches in 3 years 1 month
javahttpdapachetraffic
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