Zubair Abid
Software Engineer at IIIT Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolZubair Abid is a software engineer with 9 years of experience, currently building backend systems at Microsoft and researching NLP at IIIT Hyderabad’s Language Technologies Research Centre. He has hands-on Azure experience—contributing to the widely used azure-cli for Backup services and implementing features like disk restore, cross-region restore, and encryption-set handling. Previously he improved REST API latency for Azure Backup via a Redis-based distributed cache, yielding up to 37% faster GET calls, and has practical web ops experience managing Apache/nginx and Flask/Django sites. His background in computational linguistics and teaching at IIIT Hyderabad gives him a unique blend of research-oriented thinking and production-grade engineering. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who moves between low-level system optimizations and language-tech research with equal ease.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
St. Xavier's Collegiate School, KolkataBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Computational Linguistics, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at IIIT Hyderabad
English, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu
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Github Skills (9)
command-line-interface10
azure10
re-store10
backup10
microsoft-azure10
python10
azure-cli10
documentation9
testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 7 commits, 26 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zubair primarily contributed to the Azure CLI command-line interface for the Azure Backup service. Their work involved implementing and modifying features related to backup and restore operations, specifically disk restore functionality, cross-region restore, and handling of disk encryption sets. They also worked on improving the handling of job status and documentation updates, indicating a focus on enhancing the functionality, usability, and documentation of the backup commands within the CLI. These changes involved both code modifications and documentation updates.
command-line-interfacecloudazurecommand-lineazure-cli
zubairabid/CL2-Project
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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