Touseef Liaqat
Principal Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolTouseef Liaqat is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years building kernel, infra, and distributed systems across Microsoft, VMware, Airbnb, Meta, and Agoric, now leading platform engineering at Microsoft. He specializes in low-level reliability and secure architecture—ranging from Windows kernel work to designing container runtimes and data sync protocols—and has hands-on open-source experience improving build and packaging tooling for projects like VMware's photon. As founder of Algolab he designs practical tech courses and mentors engineers, and off-duty he coaches a girls’ FTC robotics team and writes about human-centered tech education. His background blends deep systems engineering with product-minded leadership and a knack for translating complex infrastructure into teachable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Startup Design Thinking, Startup Design Thinking at altMBAMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
English
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Github Skills (11)
git10
git-repository10
linux10
github10
python10
rpm10
build-automation10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/photon
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Minimal Linux container host
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:115 commits, 102 PRs, 128 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Touseef primarily focused on modifying the `support/pullsources/pullsources.py` script to enhance user interaction by requesting permission before replacing local source files. They also resolved merge conflicts and addressed build issues in the `filesystem.spec` and `build_package.py` files. Their contributions further extended to the build system by updating `prepare-build-root.sh` and `adjust-gcc-specs.sh` for better build process management.
containershostlinuxdockercontainer-linux
toliaqat/xenon
Mar 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 PRs, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
decentralized-controlxenonblockchaindecentralizedcontrol-plane
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