Summary
Fan Bao is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with over eight years of experience building and securing large-scale data pipelines for Bing Local. He blends deep research roots—a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State and earlier work at Tsinghua—with hands-on engineering, having migrated complex pipelines to Azure Data Factory and rebuilt CI/CD and security configurations. Fan excels at unifying disparate publishing systems into a single, performant pipeline and creating tooling and dashboards that improve monitoring, gating, and fast correction workflows. His background in computational design and graphics research informs a systematic, algorithmic approach to problem solving that shows up in his pipeline optimizations and web-mining systems. Based in Redmond, he frequently leads cross-team initiatives and weekly DRI sessions, demonstrating both technical leadership and operational ownership.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 4.0 at Arizona State University
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.43, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.43 at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English