Summary
Chris Tao is an experienced SDET and software architect with 10+ years building network and communication systems across Linux, VxWorks, Windows Server and NPU platforms. Currently at Microsoft, he designs and implements interoperability test suites for Windows Server protocols and device scenarios, drawing on earlier leadership of Packet Core routing and NPU-based systems at Ericsson. He combines deep C/C++/C# systems-level coding with product planning, requirement analysis and architecture design, and has repeatedly moved projects from research/pre-study into production. Based in Shenzhen with a master’s in information science and technology, he pairs hands-on test tooling and protocol expertise with a knack for translating complex telecom requirements into maintainable, testable software. An engineer who “stays hungry,” he brings both low-level protocol insight and team leadership to challenging interoperability problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
master, information science and technology, master, information science and technology at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics