Donald Liu
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Liu is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building cloud-native and monitoring solutions, currently leading Azure Monitoring for SAP at Microsoft. He architects end-to-end systems—from API layers to backend orchestration—and built an extensible monitoring framework that enables partner contributions across Azure. His background spans infrastructure-as-code and observability (including ARM template work for Azure Monitor Workbooks) as well as resource provisioning for bare-metal SAP HANA on Azure. Prior roles show deep hands-on experience with Docker microservices, Java-based storage management, and performance optimizations (one API improved 1000x using Elasticsearch). Known for pragmatic engineering that bridges telemetry, reliability, and partner integrations, he combines systems-level thinking with delivery focus.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Informatics, BS, Informatics at University of WashingtonBellevue Community College
Chinese
Github Skills (8)
azure-monitor10
infrastructure-as-code10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
worksheet10
arm-templates10
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Application-Insights-Workbooks
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Templates for Azure Monitor Workbooks
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 68 commits, 46 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Donald primarily contributed to the creation and modification of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates within the `microsoft/application-insights-workbooks` repository. They added and updated templates for scheduled query rules, specifically related to SAP monitoring alerts. Their work involved configuring alert parameters, including thresholds, operators, and suppression settings, demonstrating a focus on infrastructure-as-code and monitoring configuration within the Azure environment. They also incorporated features like configurable alert frequencies and time windows.
application-insights-workbooksazure-monitormonitoranalysismicrosoft-azure
Azure/AzureMonitorForSAPSolutions
Oct 2019 - Sep 2021
This repository contains the scripts run by the monitoring service “Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions”.
Contributions:31 releases, 97 reviews, 182 commits in 1 year 11 months
azure-monitormonitormonitoring-servicesapazure
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