Alicia Li
Principal PM Manager -- Microsoft Fabric, Azure Stream Analytics
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlicia Li is a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft leading Azure Stream Analytics and driving its integration across Azure and Microsoft Fabric, with a 17-year background in big data analytics from IBM research to enterprise cloud services. She has a strong track record of shaping products, launching Serverless SQL and next-gen HDInsight on Kubernetes, and materially improving revenue and gross margins through pricing, cost controls, and engineering efficiency. Alicia blends deep performance engineering roots—delivering top terasort results and contributing to .NET performance benchmarks—with product leadership that spans customer engagement platforms, fraud prevention, and sustainability initiatives. Known for building cross-company v-teams, she turns customer data into actionable experiences and pragmatic business models while maintaining hands-on technical involvement in CI/CD, benchmarking, and modernizing developer tools. Based in Bellevue, she pairs rigorous research experience with commercial insight to scale analytics platforms and improve profitability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (19)
vsix10
net10
dotnet10
benchmarkdotnet10
performance-testing10
asp-net10
visual-studio-extension10
csharp10
wasm-pack9
rust-wasm9
netcore9
html8
excel8
cicd8
nuget8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/dotnet-apiport
Dec 2014 - Sep 2021
This repo contains .NET Portability Analyzer (VSIX and Console) libraries and tools
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 24 reviews, 185 commits in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alicia primarily focused on improving the .NET Portability Analyzer tool, making it a global tool and modernizing its dependencies. They fixed bugs in the DGML reports and Excel output, addressing issues with unresolved dependencies and null values. They also updated documentation links and fixed accessibility issues in the HTML reports, improving user experience. Furthermore, they contributed to the project's build process by creating NuGet packages and configuring the publishing pipeline.
dotnetvisual-studio-extensionconsolevsixportability
dotnet/performance
May 2020 - Sep 2021
This repo contains benchmarks used for testing the performance of all .NET Runtimes
Role in this project:Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 45 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alicia primarily focused on improving and maintaining the performance benchmarks within the .NET runtime repository. Their contributions involved updating the BenchmarkDotNet library to newer versions to support new features like WASM AOT, fixing issues related to WASM interpreter runs, and resolving Mono AOT run problems. They also worked on adapting the CI/CD pipeline, including adding error handling, and improving diagnostics for Helix jobs related to benchmark executions.
dotnetbenchmarkingruntimestestingbenchmark
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