Chi Song
Principal Senior Software Engineer Lead at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChi Song is a Principal Senior Software Engineer Lead based in Bellevue, WA, with over 15 years of hands-on development experience and eight years leading teams across startups and Microsoft. He designs and ships large-scale cloud testing and validation systems—most notably the microsoft/lisa framework that runs tens of thousands of Linux tests daily and an external Azure testing service for distro partners—while cultivating data-driven engineering practices. Equally comfortable in architecture and execution, he has led migrations, built ETL platforms and GraphQL backends, and scaled product and engineering organizations up to 50 people as a CTO. An active contributor to prominent open-source projects like Microsoft/nni, Chi improves developer experience through documentation, translation, and usability work, reflecting a pragmatic focus on accessibility and cross-cultural impact.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Software, Master of Science - MS Computer Software at Yanshan University
Github Skills (12)
translator10
rs10
translators10
translater10
restructuredtext10
translation10
translate10
documentation10
sphinx9
python8
automated-machine-learning4
automl4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/nni
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
An open source AutoML toolkit for automate machine learning lifecycle, including feature engineering, neural architecture search, model compression and hyper-parameter tuning.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:80 reviews, 81 commits, 156 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Chi primarily contributed to the project's documentation, focusing on clarifying and enhancing the existing documentation. This involved fixing tables in the `NNICTLDOC` document, rewording and correcting typos within the Python API reference, and translating documentation into Chinese. These changes involved modifications to `.rst`, `.md`, and `.py` files. The user's contributions improved the clarity and accessibility of the project's documentation.
pythonneural-architecture-searchengineeringtensorflowbayesian-optimization
Cjkkkk/nni
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
An open source AutoML toolkit for neural architecture search and hyper-parameter tuning.
Contributions:2302 commits in 7 months
pythonneural-architecture-searchtensorflowhyperparameter-tuning
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