Brian Zhu
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Zhu is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building developer tooling and cloud integration features, notably contributing to the Azure Functions Visual Studio extension (with ~1M downloads) and Visual Studio’s Azure provisioning and Web App publish experiences. He combines product-focused engineering with hands-on implementation across IDE extensions and cloud deployment workflows, and earlier co-developed a top Microsoft AI Hackathon project presented to senior AI leadership. A McGill Computer Science graduate based in Seattle, Brian also has practical experience in payroll systems and SOAP services from an internship at Workday, reflecting a breadth from backend integrations to developer UX. Known for shipping features that improve developer productivity at scale, he maintains an active GitHub presence while continuing to evolve within Microsoft’s cloud and tooling ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Henry M. Gunn Senior High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at McGill University
Github Skills (55)
msbuild-task10
eval10
visual-studio-extension10
dotnet9
template-engine9
dotnet-new9
webjobs9
command-line-tool8
documentation-generator8
asp-net8
dotnet-core8
azure-functions8
azure-webjobs-sdk8
asp-net-core8
visual-studio-code-extension8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bzhu94/azure-functions-vs-build-sdk
May 2017 - Jun 2018
MSBuild task for Azure Functions
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 year 2 months
msbuild-taskmsbuildazure-functionsazure
bzhu94/Simple-File-System
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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