Hello!
I'm Naeem Hossain, my specialties involve software engineering, systems design, automation, & operations
Currently: Microsoft AI | Building ai-powered systems to migrate an entire company's on-premise applications & infrastructure into azure
Get in touch: NaeemHossain.mail@gmail.com
I'm currently a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft AI. I studied at Rutgers University - New Brunswick and completed 3 internships at the following companies: AppNexus, Prudential, and Viacom.
As a platform engineer, I oversee a fleet of ~30k Azure virtual instances, use AI tooling to automate solutions, and manage the Terraform infrastructure for an entire org — here are a few certifications I've earned along the way:
- Microsoft Certified:
- Sumo Logic Certified:
When I'm not in front of a computer screen, I'm probably cooking or adventuring!
Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft AI
- Author org-wide Terraform / CDKTF configs that handle 95% of the Azure lifecycle (VMSS, network, storage, etc.)
- Built an MCP agent that handles 100% of critical on-prem infrastructure investigations (~10k hosts)
- Hold training sessions to onboard team members to full ownership in the Azure environment
- Develop & deploy internal observability dashboards (Geneva) for the entire org
- Estimate costs, plan budgets, & manage Azure capacity for org leadership
Associate System Operations Engineer → System Operations Engineer II @ Xandr
- Deployed & maintained platform infrastructure for Microsoft Advertising & Netflix Ad-Serving
- Built Python tools & libraries to automate vault secret management, live-traffic shifts, & server migrations
- Rebuilt several legacy (10+ yr) RHEL-based applications to full functionality on recent Ubuntu distros
- Leveraged 200+ hours of on-call experience to resolve client-facing outages and handle postmortems
- Migrated team observability & alerting infrastructure from a variety of on-prem sources to IcM
- Planned & enabled hyperthreading on 15+ Kubernetes clusters — optimized CPU / Memory by ~30%
- Migrated team communications & automation from Slack to Microsoft Teams
Ambassador @ RUniteCS
- Represented women-in-CS initiatives at Rutgers, organizing community events and tech workshops
- Mentored new students through their first CS coursework, hosting study sessions and code reviews
- Coordinated speaker engagements and outreach with industry partners
System Operations Intern @ AppNexus
- Built internal tools using Python / Flask, uWSGI, and NGINX to reduce traffic shifting time by 50%
- Engaged in infrastructure maintenance, capacity planning, and emergency response
- Used Puppet, Kubernetes / Docker, and NGINX load balancers to manage infrastructure
Software Development Intern @ Prudential Experimental Laboratory
- Developed applications with the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.io, AngularJS, Node.js)
- Successfully pitched minimal viable products to company leadership
- Built data visualization applications with D3 and Tableau
Software Development Intern @ Viacom Media Networks
- Cooperated with Apple to implement deep-linking and Siri into Apple TV applications
- Developed Viacom's iOS / Apple TV applications using both Swift and TVML
- Used Node.js to write and implement content APIs
- Python (3.x)
- Bash
- TypeScript
- Go
- HCL (Terraform)
- SQL
- JavaScript
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform / CDKTF
- Bicep / ARM
- Puppet
- Ansible
- Helm
- Git (GitHub, Azure DevOps)
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Geneva / Grafana / Prometheus
- ICM / Opsgenie
- Jira / Confluence
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude
- Gemini
- GPT
- Ubuntu (20.04 - 24.04)
- RHEL / Debian
- macOS
- Windows
Python CLI that pulls SSH private keys from Azure Key Vault and connects to VMs / VMSS instances through Azure Bastion. Atomic key writes with mode 0600, optional key shred on disconnect, full az CLI integration.
pipx install azkv-ssh-fetchPython CLI that picks the next free CIDR prefix from an Azure Virtual Network Manager IPAM pool, plus subcommands to list pool reservations and report per-prefix utilization. Removes the manual portal arithmetic.
pipx install avnm-pool-cidrPython CLI that fetches AKS kubeconfigs via az aks get-credentials and merges them into ~/.kube/config under a short alias. Tracks cluster / RG / subscription / admin metadata in a state file so refresh, list, verify, and rm work without retyping arguments. Admin (cluster-certificate) contexts are clearly flagged in list and re-warned on verify so they aren't accidentally shared.
pipx install azaks-connOpen-source L3 CDKTF construct contributed to Microsoft's terraform-cdk-constructs library — a typed Azure Bastion Host resource (Standard & Developer SKUs, configurable scale units, feature-flag toggles) with API-version schema validation, unit and integration tests, and generated API docs.
This site — a data-driven Jekyll portfolio with a dark-mode toggle, JSON-LD structured-data SEO, a /writing/ blog, and YAML-sourced experience, projects, and skills. Auto-deployed via GitHub Pages.
Convolutional neural net trained to recognize wildlife fish — including everyone's favorite clownfish.
Sign language interpreter built on top of the Leap Motion sensor — captures hand gestures and translates them into text in real time.
iOS app that uses the Clarifai, Maps, and Wikipedia APIs to recognize national landmarks from a picture, then surface their location plus a short summary.