Mayank Mahajan
Security Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMayank Mahajan is a Security Software Engineer at Microsoft with eight years of enterprise software experience focused on Azure cloud security, disk encryption, and endpoint management. He holds a MS in Computer Science from UIUC and has a track record of shipping production features across large-scale platforms at Microsoft, IBM, Expedia, and Sun Microsystems. Mayank contributed to the Azure/azure-linux-extensions project, improving Azure Disk Encryption for diverse Linux distributions and fixing tricky unmounting and RHEL-specific issues that improved real-world VM reliability. His background blends security research (smart grid intrusion fusion) with hands-on systems engineering—building installers, KMIP plugins, and CDN-backed VM distribution—so he navigates both low-level protocol work and cloud-scale services. Based in Bothell, WA, he brings a pragmatic, cross-domain approach to hardening cloud infrastructure and operationalizing encryption at scale.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (15)
linux10
python10
encryption10
microsoft-azure9
azure9
rhel9
bash8
centos8
system-administration7
uiimage6
ios6
video-capture6
avfoundation6
loops6
mysql6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-linux-extensions
Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Mayank primarily focused on modifying and improving the Azure Disk Encryption extension for Linux. Their contributions included bug fixes and enhancements related to encryption status, and the update encryption settings process, particularly addressing issues in the RHEL 7.4 environment. They also made changes to ensure compatibility and correct operation on various Linux distributions. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to the unmounting of a disk.
azurelinuxvirtual-machine
mayank88mahajan/azure-linux-extensions
Jul 2017 - Dec 2019
Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure
Contributions:19 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 5 months
extensionslinuxvirtual-machineazure
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