Connie Yau
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolConnie Yau is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently shaping the Azure SDK for Java at Microsoft to make cloud services more seamless for customers. With deep roots in .NET (C# remains a first love), she specializes in modernizing legacy projects, dependency and build-system fixes, and improving test and CI processes across open-source projects like EasyNetQ, RazorEngine, YamlDotNet, and Lucene.NET. Her work on the Azure SDK and core AMQP libraries blends backend engineering with practical security and reliability improvements, including encoding support, retry logic, and authorization fixes for service bus scenarios. Comfortable working directly with customers to design migration paths to modern platforms, she brings a pragmatic focus on interoperability and developer experience. Unusually for an engineer with a biology background, she combines rigorous analytical thinking with a sustained commitment to open-source maintenance and cross-platform compatibility.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of CalgaryBachelor of Science - BS, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at University of Calgary
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Github Skills (44)
nuget10
servicebus10
back-end-development10
amqp10
testing10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
xunit10
java10
security10
rabbitmq10
netframework10
asp-net10
javas10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/dotnet-apiport
Jan 2015 - Feb 2019
This repo contains .NET Portability Analyzer (VSIX and Console) libraries and tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 290 commits, 329 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Connie primarily contributed to the core functionality of the .NET Portability Analyzer, focusing on back-end code. Their commits involved fixing bugs, refactoring existing components, and implementing features related to the analysis of .NET assemblies. The user's work included improvements in the target mapping process and the handling of various system types, especially in the context of .NET Framework. They demonstrated a solid understanding of the project's purpose by addressing globalization and other code analysis warnings.
dotnetvisual-studio-extensionconsolevsixportability
Azure/azure-sdk-for-java
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Java. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/java/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1109 reviews, 487 commits, 1643 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Connie's contributions focused on fixing naming issues and ensuring correct authorization for the Azure messaging service. Specifically, they addressed issues in the underlying core AMQP library, including adding more flexible support for encodings, implementing retries for more exceptions, refactoring to simplify internal operations, updating tests, and correcting the logic to ensure that the proper level of security and verification were in place for service bus operations. They also worked on incorporating support for custom and json-based schema formats and ensuring that the libraries operated properly even when a receiver was not properly configured.
azure-resourcesversionedazure-functionssdkazure-services
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