Naeem Hossain

Senior Software Engineer · Systems & Software

NaeemHossain.mail@gmail.com · github.com/NaeemH · linkedin.com/in/naeem-hossain · naeemh.github.io

Experience

Senior Software Engineer June 2022 - Present
Microsoft AI · New York, NY
  • 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 March 2019 - June 2022
Xandr · New York, NY
  • 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 Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
RUniteCS · New Brunswick, NJ
  • 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 Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
AppNexus · New York, NY
  • 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 May 2017 - Aug 2017
Prudential Experimental Laboratory · Newark, NJ
  • 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 Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
Viacom Media Networks · New York, NY
  • 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

Skills

LanguagesPython (3.x), Bash, TypeScript, Go, HCL (Terraform), SQL, JavaScript
DistributedAzure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform / CDKTF, Bicep / ARM, Puppet, Ansible, Helm
WorkflowsGit (GitHub, Azure DevOps), GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Geneva / Grafana / Prometheus, ICM / Opsgenie, Jira / Confluence
AIGitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, GPT
OSUbuntu (20.04 - 24.04), RHEL / Debian, macOS, Windows

Certifications

Microsoft CertifiedAzure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Sumo Logic CertifiedPower Admin, Power User, Fundamentals
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