Azeez Alishah Hussain Syed

Systems Software Engineer | CNCF Contributor (Cilium, CoreDNS)

Professional Summary

Systems Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native technologies, eBPF, and Kubernetes. Proven open source contributor to CNCF graduated projects (Cilium, CoreDNS) with a focus on networking protocols, security, and low-level systems programming in Go and Rust.

Open Source Contributions

Cilium (CNCF Graduated Project)

PR #38874 Apr 2025

Fixed Gateway API reconciler crash when TLSRoute CRD is absent, preventing production deployment failures.

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PR #39275

Resolved routing misconfiguration by implementing Group and Kind validation for parentRef matching per Gateway API specification.

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PR #40272

Authored egressDeny policy documentation, backported across v1.16–v1.18 branches.

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CoreDNS (CNCF Graduated Project)

PR #7402 Jul 2025

Fixed SRV record case handling to comply with RFC 6763 for proper mDNS/DNS-SD service discovery.

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PR #7413

Corrected TXT record comparison logic per RFC 1035, merged into v1.12.3.

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PR #7438

Eliminated flaky multisocket tests via fresh port allocation and channel-based cleanup.

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CoreDNS Plugins

PR #7798 2024

Refactored plugin test framework for improved maintainability and test isolation.

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PR #7799

Enhanced monitoring endpoints for better observability and debugging.

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Sourcemeta Core

PR #2040 Nov 2025

Replaced hash map-based vocabulary lookups with bitset-based approach, achieving O(1) lookups for 29 JSON Schema vocabularies.

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Kagent

PR #1178 Dec 2025

Fixed agent deletion bug by standardizing ID format consistency, eliminating orphaned records.

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Technical Projects

Purple AI Sandbox

Rust eBPF Seccomp BPF Linux Namespaces Tokio

Secure runtime for untrusted AI agents with multi-layer defense: eBPF packet filtering, syscall validation, and resource enforcement. Features pre-built security profiles, REST API with auth, and JSON audit logging.

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breveTest

Java Maven REST APIs

Declarative API testing framework enabling REST testing without code. Tests defined via .breve config files with automatic discovery during Maven builds. Supports all HTTP verbs and CI/CD integration.

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Technical Skills

Languages

Go Rust C C++ Python TypeScript Java

Cloud Native

Kubernetes Cilium Gateway API eBPF Service Mesh Cgroups v2

Systems

Operating Systems Multi-threading TCP/IP Memory Management

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India

2024

Focus: Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Data Structures, Operating Systems

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