Fanglu Guo
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFanglu Guo is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft specializing in large-scale distributed services, cloud security, and high-performance storage and networking. He has a proven track record of turning research into revenue-generating products—launching multiple products at Google used by 400+ teams and driving Symantec deduplication features that helped grow revenue from $200M to $430M. A prolific inventor with 40+ granted patents and two best paper awards, he combines deep academic credentials (PhD in CS) with hands-on system design for million-QPS services. Fanglu excels at scaling teams and platforms—growing engineering orgs, mentoring engineers to senior levels, and taking ideas from prototype to production in security- and compliance-sensitive environments. Notably, his expertise spans both low-level techniques (OS virtualization, buffer overflow detection, packet processing) and cloud-scale concerns (IAM performance, GDPR data retention), making him effective across research, product, and operational domains.
3 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.E. EE, B.E. EE at Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityM.E. EE, M.E. EE at Chinese Academy of SciencesPhD CS, PhD CS at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (18)
swagger10
api10
rest10
cloud-init9
azure-cli9
openapi9
azure9
rest-api9
cli8
agent8
provisioning8
vhd8
microsoft7
portable7
microsoft-azure7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fangluguomsft/azure-cli-extensions
Jan 2023 - Oct 2023
Public Repository for Extensions of Azure CLI.
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
public-repositoryextensionsazureazure-clicli
Azure/mygreeterv3-demo
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 comments in 1 day
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