Kanishk Bansal
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKanishk Bansal is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft’s Azure Linux R&D team in Bengaluru, specializing in cloud security and developer tooling with four years of hands-on experience. He has led end-to-end CVE management and built automation pipelines that together mitigated over 2000 CVEs across Azure Linux, cutting manual intervention and accelerating patch release cycles. His work spans direct code-level fixes (libcap, memcached, containerd, vitess, curl) and release orchestration for a first-party Azure OS used in edge and service platforms. Earlier internships included Azure Arc for VMware and cybersecurity work with Rajasthan Police, reflecting a blend of cloud-native engineering and applied security practice. Colleague-facing improvements like a redesigned release dashboard and automated PR generation demonstrate his focus on scalable developer productivity as well as security.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Vellore Institute of Technology10th, 10th at Maheshwari Public School12th, PCM, 12th, PCM at Samrat Public School
Hindi, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
linux10
patch10
security10
go9
zlib8
curl7
memcached7
vitess7
containerd7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
General purpose Linux OS for Azure
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:485 reviews, 718 PRs, 438 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kanishk's primary focus appears to be addressing security vulnerabilities within the Azure Linux OS codebase. They are actively patching dependencies, specifically `libcap`, `memcached`, and components related to `containerd`, and `vitess`, to mitigate identified CVEs. Their work involves directly modifying code to address security flaws and vulnerabilities, as well as integrating patches for related dependencies like `curl`.
azurelinux
Kanishk-Bansal/azurelinux
Nov 2024 - Jun 2026
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Contributions:16 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 6 months
azurelinux
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