Summary
Chu Li is a software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, resilient cloud applications at Microsoft, specializing in Azure, React, and full-stack .NET systems. He designed high-availability online chat solutions and shared client-side libraries used across Microsoft products, enabling features like Windows 10’s Contact Support and supporting a 99.99% SLA with zero-downtime upgrades. Chu blends backend expertise—Azure Web/Worker Roles, Service Bus, Redis, Cassandra modeling and BI telemetry—with front-end performance work that boosted Lighthouse scores from ~45 to over 80. He also developed test automation and load/performance tools for Azure-hosted services, and led a migration effort replacing Angular pages with independently deployable React SPAs. Based in Kirkland, WA, he pairs practical production experience with an emphasis on observable systems and incremental rollouts that reduce operational risk.
8 years of coding experience