Eduard Escandell
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolEduard Escandell is a Software Engineer II based in Barcelona with six years of experience building backend and DevOps solutions across cloud-native and virtualization ecosystems. He has shipped production work at Microsoft and contributed to prominent open-source projects like Canonical’s snapd and Kubernetes virtualization project KubeVirt, focusing on WSL integration, security dependency fixes, and CI-driven testing. With a strong numerical-methods and aerospace engineering background, he brings rigorous simulation and performance-thinking from CFD and parallel C++/MPI work into scalable Go and cloud tooling. Colleagues know him for improving platform compatibility (WSL/AppArmor) and proactively hardening dependencies, a practical blend of systems-level curiosity and production-first discipline.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Numerical Methods in Engineering, 91.2, Master's Degree, Numerical Methods in Engineering, 91.2 at Universitat Politecnica de CatalunyaDegree in Aerospace Vehicle Engineering, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 72.5, Degree in Aerospace Vehicle Engineering, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 72.5 at ESEIAAAT-UPC
English, Spanish, Catalan, French
Github Skills (12)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
go10
wsl210
kubernetes-pods10
virtualization10
testing10
devops9
security9
apparmor9
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/snapd
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
The snapd and snap tools enable systems to work with .snap files.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Eduard primarily contributed to improving the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) detection and integration within the snapd project. Their work involved modifying the user agent to include WSL-related information and implementing tests for WSL environments. Additionally, the user addressed outdated WSL detection methods, fixed bugs in unit tests, and streamlined container detection within the apparmor component. These changes included modifying existing code and creating new test cases.
snapdsnap
kubevirt/kubevirt
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 2 PRs, 20 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eduard primarily contributed to the codebase by addressing vulnerabilities in dependencies and improving the overall security posture of the project. This included bumping specific Go dependencies like `golang.org/x/net` and `golang.org/x/crypto` to protect against identified security flaws. The user also introduced validation of the filesystem overhead parameter, fixed storage class leaks in tests, and refined existing code, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
kubernetesvirtual-machinevirtualizationlibvirtvms
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