Chifeng Cai
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
United States
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Top SchoolChifeng Cai is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years building large-scale, high‑throughput distributed systems and more than a decade of technical leadership and engineering management experience. At Microsoft he architects and operates a production inference platform serving LLMs across 100K compute nodes and 138 billion requests per day with 99.9% SLA, and previously led teams that cut data ingestion latency from minutes to seconds for petabyte-scale pipelines. He blends deep systems and platform skills (C#, Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Prometheus) with applied SRE practices—developing proactive repair bots and zero‑downtime patching across heterogeneous VM SKUs. A Certified Scrum Master and three‑time awardee for team contribution and quality, he is equally comfortable shaping high‑level architecture and writing the tooling that keeps services reliable. Not obvious from titles: he repeatedly delivers dramatic cost and latency optimizations (e.g., 35% compute savings on search captioning) while scaling platforms used by thousands of internal and external customers.
6 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Wuhan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (59)
docker10
data-science10
machine-learning10
microsoft-azure10
azure-machine-learning10
ml10
chroot10
containerd10
fluent-bit10
azure10
logging10
fluentd10
container9
kubernetes9
containerization9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
frcai/azure-docs
Apr 2022 - Jun 2024
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 years 2 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
frcai/containerd
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
An open and reliable container runtime
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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