Daini Xie is a Principal Software Engineer based in Redmond with deep expertise in cloud and AI infrastructure, currently shaping Azure infrastructure and hardware platforms at Microsoft. With a 15+ year career spanning embedded systems, firmware, device drivers and cloud services, he bridges low-level hardware bring-up to large-scale cloud operations. His background includes leading firmware and device driver development for OMAP SoCs, driving Windows device work at Qualcomm and Microsoft Device Group, and founding a company that shipped FormPAL used by thousands of organizations. Daini holds a Master's in Computer Science focused on pattern recognition and a certificate in embedded and real-time systems, reflecting a blend of research-driven thinking and practical engineering. Colleagues rely on him for systems-level debugging and for translating complex hardware constraints into reliable cloud-ready software. He brings an uncommon mix of entrepreneurial product experience and enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure know-how.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Embedded and Real-Time Systems, Certificate Embedded and Real-Time Systems at University of Washington
Master of Computer Science Pattern recognition and machine intelligence, Master of Computer Science Pattern recognition and machine intelligence at Concordia University
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Daini Xie - Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft