ARCHITECT & BUILDER
About Usama.
Senior Software Engineer with 12.3+ years of experience designing and delivering planetary-scale distributed systems on Microsoft Azure.
I specialize in AI agent platform engineering, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, multi-model orchestration, high-availability telemetry APIs (150M+ requests/day), and resilient cloud-native security.
CHRONOLOGY
Career Milestones
- CURRENT // 2016 — PRESENT9+ YRS AT MSFT
Microsoft — Software Engineer 2
- Azure Networking AI Agent Platform: Architected the platform with MCP (Model Context Protocol) support, dynamic memory management, multi-model orchestration (GPT-5.2 and GPT-mini), automated evaluation pipelines, and enterprise security controls.
- Cloud-Native Architecture: Designed on Azure AI Foundry, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Cosmos DB (operational state and vector memory), leading foundational decisions on observability, persistence, and secure integration.
- Early Adoption & Scale: Enabled platform adoption with 10+ production agents, 52 active internal teams, 16K-20K API requests monthly, and ~712 million tokens processed per month.
- Device Health API Platform: Designed and scaled a multi-region high-throughput telemetry API platform processing 150 million requests/day with 99.99%-99.999% reliability, monitoring device health across more than 3 million Azure physical nodes globally.
- Net Assist Dynamic Automation: Implemented schema-driven dynamic tooling for network operations, cutting per-workflow engineering effort by up to one full week.
- S360 Security SPOC: Owned enterprise security, compliance, vulnerability remediation, and proactive threat model reviews for AI Agent Platform and Device Health services.
- Architecture Mentorship: Primary SME driving design reviews and mentoring engineers on scalable, resilient cloud systems.
- NOV 2013 — APR 20162.5 YRS
Capgemini — Software Engineer
- Built enterprise-grade web applications for Abbott and SCA using .NET, C#, SQL Server, and Microsoft Azure cloud services.
- Led end-to-end delivery across requirements analysis, software architecture, unit testing, and production support.
- GRADUATED JUL 2013
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology