Freist Li
Principal Engineer at Microsoft
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolFreist Li is a Principal Engineer with over two decades at Microsoft and 11 years in senior engineering roles, specializing in .NET, Windows platform internals, and modern Windows app development (UWP/WinUI/Windows App SDK). He combines deep expertise in COM/DCOM, Microsoft distributed transactions, AD and SQL with practical mastery of Azure IaaS/PaaS for highly available, multi-region deployments and incident-driven troubleshooting. At Microsoft he has driven escalations and partner-facing consulting for Windows, Mixed Reality, HoloLens and Azure Cognitive Services, often collaborating directly with product teams to fix hard bugs and improve product quality. A certified ML/DL practitioner, he has built Windows ML workshops and delivered production apps using Custom Vision, GANs and speech recognition—bridging edge Windows experiences with cloud AI. Known for technical rigor and rapid learning, he brings a rare blend of low-level debugging skill and modern AI/cloud application engineering to customer-facing engagements.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (92)
sdk10
ai10
artificial-intelligence10
openvr10
llm10
openai10
dotnet9
unity3d9
uwp-apps9
azure9
bots9
xbox9
wpf9
microsoft-store9
hololens9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
freistli/live-share-sdk
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
A framework for building collaborative Microsoft Teams and M365 experiences.
Contributions:14 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
m365microsoft-teamspowershellexperiencesmicrosoft
freistli/ModernizeApp
Nov 2019 - May 2021
A place to help Windows Developers modernize their existing applications.
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 1 year 5 months
placewindows-desktopwindowsmodernizewindows-service
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