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Abel Kelbessa
💻 CS Graduate, Haverford College '25
Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Cloud + AI
Previously: SWE Intern @ Microsoft & Meta
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Microsoft SWE Intern '24
Azure Security — Code Integrity Team | May – Aug 2024
• Created an AI agent using Code Integrity team documentation to automatically respond to customer questions.
• Utilized the agent to automate response to customer emails based on team documentation.
• Integrated the agent into the team dashboard for ease of use and answering customer concerns.
• Created a dashboard for monitoring agent activity and set up a monitor to create incidents when failure occurs below the expected SLA.
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Microsoft SWE Intern '23
Azure Security — Cloud Attestation Team | May – Aug 2023
• Worked on a security anomaly detection system in Azure Cloud using a Machine Learning model.
• Selected the most suitable ML model for detecting anomalies after a thorough assessment.
• Detected active security anomalies in Azure Cloud, aggregated anomaly information to reduce information overload and shorten time spent by on-call engineers.
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Meta University Engineering Intern '22
iOS Development Track | Jun – Aug 2022
• Worked on the Instagram Close Friends Experience team to develop iOS applications.
• Created a college matching iOS app to help users find great-fit colleges based on their preferences, utilizing Parse as a backend.
• Built an Instagram clone with a custom backend, a Twitter clone using Twitter's API, and a movie-viewing app.
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Data Structures Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Data Structures course at Haverford College during Spring '23, and Spring '24, and Fall '24.
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Tri-Co Hackathon Spring '22
Participated in the virtual Tri-Co Hackathon, developing innovative solutions with fellow students. Our team won second place.
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Concurrency with OOP
Developed a social media platform implementing concurrent programming principles with object-oriented design.
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Rate My College
A college review and matching iOS app for students applying to colleges.
• Users complete a short survey to find colleges that fit their personality and academic needs.
• Displays top 5/10 recommended college matches based on preferences like location, tuition, major, and size.
• Search, like, and comment on colleges; view academic rigor ratings and campus photos.
• Built with Objective-C, Parse backend, CollegeAI API, and Google Maps API.
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Memory Game
Developed an interactive memory game to challenge and improve cognitive skills.
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Haverford Course Selection
Built a user-friendly course selection website for Haverford College students.
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Operating Systems Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant for Concurrency and Co-Design in Operating Systems course at Haverford College during Spring '25.
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Microsoft Software Engineer
Cloud + AI — Azure Code Integrity Team | Jul 2025 – Present
• Created security detection, alerting, and analytics pipelines to identify risky behavior in production environments.
• Lead and support production incident response, including investigation, mitigation, and root-cause analysis.
• Design policy downgrade detection and automated remediation workflows.
• Engineer code integrity and security enforcement systems for Azure services across Windows and Linux.
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Published Research
Using Lambda Calculus to Develop Educational Tools
Published in the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges with Professor David Wonnacott, Haverford College.
Explores using Lambda Calculus and pure functional programming to develop educational tools for students in CS1 and CS2 courses.
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blame-why
git blame tells you who and when. blame-why tells you why.
A CLI tool that enriches git blame output with the linked pull request, issue description, and review comments — all inline in your terminal.
• PR context — title, description, author, and merge date
• Linked issues — auto-parsed from closing keywords
• Review comments — inline discussion that shaped the code
• JSON output for scripting and editor integrations
Built with TypeScript. Available on npm.