# Javid Habibi > Staff Solutions Engineer @ Upbound Location: Redmond, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/javid Results-driven individual with a passion for all things Kubernetes & Application Security comprised of a demonstrated history of scoping, developing, and delivering solutions to customers. ## Work Experience ### Staff Solutions Engineer @ Upbound Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States • Lead solution design and implementation of Crossplane & Kubernetes based platforms at enterprise and hyperscale levels for Fortune 100 & Fortune 500 companies, eliminating their need to re-platform again • Built self-service Crossplane APIs enabling developer golden paths for everything-as-a-service, improving velocity, reducing risk through reusable compositions, and preventing drift with reconciliation saving up to 98% on DevOps engineering costs • Drove infrastructure cost optimization for customers by consolidating and decommissioning unused cloud resources • Acted as a critical liaison between product, engineering, and post-sales teams, driving customer feedback into the product roadmap and engineering prioritization • Established myself as the trusted technical advisor with prospects during deals and coached sales teams on platform value propositions aligned with customer needs ### Senior Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), Developer @ Microsoft Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Redmond, Washington, United States • Designed and implemented Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) solution for customer reducing number of VM cores statically allocated saving a projected 22% on their cloud computing costs • Developed a robust application scaling solution utilizing Kubernetes Event Driven Auto-scaler (KEDA) to dynamically scale application resources based on workload demands • Conducted comprehensive performance testing and analysis to identify scalability bottlenecks, fine tuning AKS configurations and scaling thresholds to maximize application responsiveness and minimize latency • Implemented monitoring and logging solutions, leveraging AKS integrations with Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure managed Prometheus to gain real-time visibility into application performance, scaling events and resource utilization ### Senior Program Manager - Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) @ Microsoft Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Redmond, Washington, United States • Participated in the Microsoft Quest rotation program where field resources are leant to product groups • Owned and launched Web App Routing public preview - a fully managed ingress solution for AKS powered by NGINX minimizing customer day 0 pain points • Owned and launched KEDA public preview for AKS, providing a fully managed horizontal scaling solution for customers unblocking multiple Azure Top 500 customers in their increased consumption of AKS • Prepared demoes and presentations for Kubecon EU 2022 and MS Build 2022 ### Senior Dev Premier Field Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States • Lead the development of Procmon-for-Linux bringing the preview to Github July 2020 • Identified EBPF (Extended Berkley Packet Filter) as a critical framework for Procmon-for-Linux enabling it to retrieve call stacks with minimum overhead on target applications • Constructed and managed CI/CD pipeline for the Sysinternals for Linux project comprised of custom docker agents ### Dev Premier Field Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Coordinated and managed onsite and offsite software development • Designed and implemented end to end POC utilizing Microsoft Linux technologies for asset management of a major networking products company • Worked extensively with customers to identify gaps in their products and practices • Created roadmaps for customer products which generated internal projects • Created onboarding packages and procedures and mentored new employees • Planned workshops to train customers and internal personnel ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Purdue University Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | West Lafayette, IN • Benchmarked and evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of constructing a botnet out of Internet of Things (IoT) devices • Developed an online tool to monitor packets transmitted by IoT devices and perform real time anomaly detection to find malicious devices • Developed an off-line tool (DisARM) to reinforce control flow integrity of the firmware in IoT devices to mitigate both code injection and code reuse attacks ### Intern Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Seattle, WA • Designed and implemented the Unified Logging Framework minimizing time required for engineers to root cause issues within the Amazon Instant Video publishing pipeline • Integrated Logstash, Elastic Search, and Kibana endpoints allowing engineers to query against logs across multiple distributed systems • Created use cases, developed test scenarios, executed unit & integration level tests, and deployed actual new code into production ### Intern SDE @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Redmond, WA • Designed and developed the User Personalization and Authorization services that allowed developers to create folders and manage workflows efficiently in XFlow • Designed and built the migration tools necessary to upgrade production environments to utilize new features • Created an intuitive document for the build & deployment process which allowed new developers to start coding in less than a week ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Purdue University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | West Lafayette, IN • Developed a new architecture (MAVR) to mitigate Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) and Jump-Oriented Programming (JOP) attacks on the Ardupilot Mega drone control units • Designed and implemented the software and prototyped the hardware modifications to prove an end to end system solution exist for the new concept • Developed an off-line tool (Marlin) to randomize gadgets found for mitigating ROP and JOP attacks on x86 • Designed test scripts and performed testing of the randomized binary images of the executable code to prevent ROP and JOP attacks • Created test scenarios, executed test scripts, analyzed test results, and prepared data for publication of papers ### Intern Software Engineer @ Boeing Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bellevue, WA • Designed and prototyped an architecture that validated all running processes and associated dll's on a machine utilizing the VirusTotal database • Supported Endpoint Protection Data Loss Prevention team by designing and implementing a web-based UI to aid technicians in data recovery of encrypted hard drives • Developed an automated tool to generated monthly metrics for Bit9 - Application Whitelisting ### Research Assistant @ Purdue University Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 • Developing an off-line tool to randomize gadgets in order to prevent attacks by Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) and Jump-Oriented Programming (JOP) • Provided test scripts and performed testing of the randomized binary images of the executable files to prevent ROP and JOP attacks • Analyzed test results and prepared the test report ### Research Assistant @ Purdue University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 • Developed a natural interaction interface utilizing the Microsoft Kinect and OpenNI libraries Implemented a hybrid K-curvature numerical differentiation algorithm to detect fingertips in C++ ### Intern Application Developer @ J.P. Morgan Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Greater Chicago Area • Designed and developed a new web based interactive interface for the Host-2-Host platform Utilized the WebMethods environment to design and implement custom translation of customer payment files • Participated in customer implementation build & deploy ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Purdue University Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Purdue University Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/javid-habibi --- Source: https://flows.cv/javid JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/javid/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22