Nabil Mezher
Gainesville,VA
Summary
I am a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft specializing in cloud infrastructure, Azure hybrid networking, automation, security, and integrating AI technologies. With a strong track record in designing and deploying scalable solutions, I excel in optimizing performance, reliability, and security. I bring a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and translate complex requirements into efficient software solutions. My commitment to staying abreast of technology trends allows me to deliver practical and impactful results in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Reston,VA
12.2019 - Current
- Responsible for development and maintenance of bug fixes and features in C# for the Azure VirtualWAN service and its migration to new Microsoft clouds, including United States sovereign clouds
- Spearheaded design of Proof-of-Concept Azure OpenAI-based internal tooling for dependency identification and management, and lead the internal showcasing and previewing of the service.
- Lead 2023 Hackathon team in construction of a pre-CoPilot Azure OpenAI-based debugging support bot, referencing debug guides and code to aid engineers in triage events
- Co-lead architecture design of new Azure service, from requirements derivation to design document creation, to service writing in C# and hardening
- Lead automated buildout of multiple Azure services within new Azure regions.
- Responsible for instantiation of 5+ Azure Services within Azure Sovereign clouds - accomplished via automation of historically manually processes
- Created secrets rotation management automation using a combination of Azure resources and Powershell scripts to reduce toil on on-call engineers and improve security posture
- Served multiple rotations as on-call engineer responsible for mitigating and resolving complex customer issues, often working with partner teams and customer service teams to write RCAs
- Developed complex backfill automation to reduce leaked Azure resource consumption leading to $X MM in cost savings
- Wrote internal tooling to aid in debugging Azure VPN Gateway service during authentication timeouts
- Built upon internal incident triage service in order to detect early failures in packet transmission errors and drops within Azure Networking physical network backbone
- Helped to hire and onboard team members and introduce them to internal tooling and programming frameworks, and mentored junior team members on partner teams to aid in learning and development
Co-Founder
Minerva Software Solutions
Fairfax,VA
08.2017 - 12.2020
- Responsible for producing company website (minervatechs.com) as well as conducting business development and finding potential opportunities
- Lead application developer for proprietary Android-based application to process data from a visual feed, send it securely to a backend cluster, and relay to mobile device information about the scanned image
- Integrated Google Vision and Network packages
- Built Google Cloud Platform compute instances, automated GCP startup scripts, and managed multi-tiered, always-available instances providing microservices and web-hosting using Flask and Django
Software Engineer
Northstrat
Sterling,VA
01.2019 - 12.2019
- One of two team members responsible for AngularJS to Angular 7 (and beyond) conversion of legacy application
- Employed AWS Microservices and build APIs
- Built backend microservices using Python
- Managed configuration via Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Jenkins)
- Used Apache NiFi and custom processor builds, integrated with Stanford CoreNLP
ELP Software Engineer - Lead
General Dynamics
Fairfax,VA
05.2014 - 01.2019
- Responsible for development of software for the MIT (hypervisor graphical interfaces, resource scheduler, tactical sonar simulator/stimulator aids)
- Software written in C++11, primary using Qt 5+, as well as Python 2.7 for a separate interface
- Co-architected and led development of dynamic resource scheduler used to deploy tactical software remotely
- Responsible for implementing and ensuring RMF STIGs
- Created lifecycle transition plans, from traditional/waterfall FWs to Scrum/Kanban
- Engineered QEMU and VirtualBox solutions for virtual test beds, kernel modifications and OS customizations
- General Dynamics Mission Systems Engineering Leadership Program graduate
- R&D work to employ containerization within production deliverables
- Responsible for growing the business by attending conferences such as IITSEC
Software Engineering Intern
RedLattice
Fairfax,VA
05.2013 - 09.2013
- Worked with small team to design Python application to determine correlation between stock market and specified social media feeds
- Performance and application research of Multi-Objective Optimization with relation to both corporate and national security interests
- Hands-on experience in maintaining corporate secrecy with regards to proprietary solutions and in communicating professional software design
Education
Masters of Science - Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD05.2018
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA05.2015
Additional Information
Security Clearance Top Secret (Granted 2019, CE 2024), Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Certification
AZ-700: Azure Network Engineer Associate - Expires November 2025
AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate – Expires August 2026
AZ-500: Azure Security Engineer Associate – Expires May 2026
MS-700: Teams Administrator Associate – Expires April 2026
AZ-140: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty – Expires January 2026
AI-900: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals
Unity Certified User: Programmer
Teams Support Engineer Specialty – Retired
Red Hat Certified System Administrator – Expired October 2020
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
12.2019 - Current
Software Engineer
Northstrat
01.2019 - 12.2019
Co-Founder
Minerva Software Solutions
08.2017 - 12.2020
ELP Software Engineer - Lead
General Dynamics
05.2014 - 01.2019
Software Engineering Intern
RedLattice
05.2013 - 09.2013
Masters of Science - Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
George Mason University