Youssef Shahin, Developer in Redmond, WA, United States
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Youssef Shahin

Bio

Youssef is a software engineer with 15+ years of experience in designing and optimizing large-scale system infrastructures. He has a proven track record in enhancing system reliability, scalability, and security through innovative architectural improvements. Youssef is skilled in leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers, driving complex system migrations and implementing robust operational practices.

Portfolio

Microsoft
ASP.NET Core, Azure, C++, Go, Python, Bash, C#, Docker, Kubernetes, Rust
Microsoft
Teaching, Python, Machine Learning, Azure, ASP.NET, C#
Gyrolabs
Twilio, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Experience

  • Ubuntu - 7 years
  • CSS - 7 years
  • HTML - 7 years
  • Object-oriented Design (OOD) - 5 years
  • JavaScript - 3 years
  • Ruby - 2 years
  • Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 2 years
  • Twilio API - 1 year

Preferred Environment

Git, Ubuntu, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Rust

The most amazing...

...\thing I've built was a Goal State Orchestration (GSO) system, which was used to manage and deploy ML infrastructure and models.

Work Experience

Principal Software Engineer

2019 - PRESENT
Microsoft
  • Built and maintained the Microsoft speech service platform. Created on-prem solutions for speech service containers for private cloud deployments.
  • Handled Azure Cognitive Services infrastructure deployments and management. Created and owned the speaker recognition service.
  • Contributed to Azure AI service infrastructure deployments and management.
Technologies: ASP.NET Core, Azure, C++, Go, Python, Bash, C#, Docker, Kubernetes, Rust

Senior Research SDE

2014 - 2018
Microsoft
  • Owned LUIS, a machine teaching platform for language understanding.
  • Contributed to performance and reliability improvements in the service, allowing runtime traffic to reach thousands of requests per second with 99.9% uptime.
  • Introduced solid engineering practices to allow for fast, reliable deployments, as well as zero downtime and easy rollback of the service.
Technologies: Teaching, Python, Machine Learning, Azure, ASP.NET, C#

Consultant

2013 - 2014
Gyrolabs
  • Built a website along with a JavaScript library to allow calling between websites.
  • Set up an Asterisk server and connected it to Twilio to service SIP clients.
Technologies: Twilio, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Software Development Engineer

2010 - 2014
Microsoft
  • Analyzed data and traffic to improve Bing's local search.
  • Maintained and improved Bing Translate.
  • Built the Bing.com instant answers component.
Technologies: Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Data Mining, C#, JavaScript

Co-founder

2010 - 2012
el7a2.net
  • Understood and improved a pre-existing project with poor code quality.
  • Built the business from the ground up.
  • Hired and managed people.
Technologies: Magento, Zend Studio, PHP

Software Engineer

2009 - 2010
Technivance
  • Built components to convert Magento to a multi-store shopping cart (think online mall).
  • Built components for http://www.Q8Car.com.
Technologies: Zend Framework, Magento, ASP.NET, C#, PHP

Software Engineer

2007 - 2009
ITWorx
  • Built a reusable code repository and a Visual Studio plugin for installation in the current project.
  • Maintained and reviewed software licenses and purchases.
  • Deployed an Asterisk server to use internal communication on employee phones.
Technologies: Python, ASP.NET, C#, Adobe Flex

Experience

Vagrant Parallels

https://github.com/yshahin/vagrant-parallels
A Vagrant provider plugin I created to enable Vagrant to work on Parallels. Parallels is clearly better than VirtualBox on OS X in terms of performance and memory utilization. It gained popularity and was taken over by Parallels International GmbH.

Usertalk

UserTalk was a help desk application that allowed customers to call a user from anywhere and receive a user's customer calls from the website through the user's SIP-enabled phone from the user's landline.

ITWorx Prayer Time Gadget

A Windows Vista gadget to calculate Muslim prayer times.

Bing Translator

http://www.bing.com/translator/
I maintained and built components on Bing Translator as a full-stack engineer working on UI, JavaScript components, and the C# back-end. I moved the site from www.microsofttranslator.com to bing.com/translator.

UIME (Universal Input Method Editor)

I designed and built the UIME JavaScript library. I optimized for modularity, made the project easily digestible, and allowed it to be even easier to build new features.

Language Understanding Intellegent Services | LUIS.ai

https://www.luis.ai
I worked as a lead engineer in building a large-scale machine learning platform for training command and control ML models for developers. LUIS is a low-latency, low-cost solution for building classification and entity extraction models for simple command and control assistants.

Education

2016 - 2021

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Georgia Tech - Atlanta, GA, USA

2001 - 2007

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering

American University in Cairo - Cairo, Egypt

Certifications

JULY 2013 - PRESENT

Machine Learning

Coursera

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Twilio API, jQuery, Google API, X (formerly Twitter) API, Bing Maps, WebRTC

Tools

Microsoft Visual Studio, Sublime Text 2, Zend Studio, Sublime Text, Git, Oh My Zsh, TextMate, Vim Text Editor, MacVim, Zsh, VirtualBox

Paradigms

Object-oriented Design (OOD), Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Agile Software Development, Scrum, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Parallel Programming, Distributed Programming

Platforms

Ubuntu, Windows, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Twilio, Magento, OS X, Azure, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Languages

Python, HTML, CSS, C#, C++, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Bash, Ruby, Java, Go, Rust

Storage

SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Frameworks

Adobe Flex, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Zend Framework, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Symfony, Play Framework

Industry Expertise

Teaching

Other

Data Mining, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Multithreading, Algorithms, Scalability, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Software Development, Development, Virtualization Technology

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