Guanyun Zhang
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGuanyun Zhang is a Principal Software Engineer based in Cambridge with nine years of professional experience and a deep background in systems, embedded and SDK development. At Microsoft he has led teams building the Azure Sphere SDK, shaping host-to-device communication and tooling for secure IoT platforms. Technically fluent across C/C++, C#, Java, Python and SQL, he brings strong OO design, multithreading and networking expertise (TCP/IP, BLE) and has contributed embedded samples to the widely used Azure Sphere repository. Earlier roles at Granta, Goldman Sachs and Nokia show a track record of solving hard integration and performance problems across CAD/CAE gateways, large-scale risk systems and Bluetooth stacks. He combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, shipping production frameworks under tight schedules and limited APIs. Notably, he implemented Wi‑Fi-over-BLE and secure cURL examples for Azure Sphere, reflecting an interest in practical IoT security and developer experience.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First at Dalian Minzu UniversityMSc, Machine Learning and Data Mining, MSc, Machine Learning and Data Mining at University of Bristol
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
iot10
embedded10
bluetooth-le10
android-sample10
btle10
bluetooth-low-energy10
sys10
networking10
sample-data10
c119
curl9
c179
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sphere-samples
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Samples for Azure Sphere
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Guanyun primarily contributed to the `azure/azure-sphere-samples` repository, focusing on samples related to the Azure Sphere platform. Their work included the implementation of Wi-Fi configuration via BLE, demonstrating a deep understanding of embedded systems and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication. Additionally, the user updated samples for cURL usage for secure HTTPS requests and updated various other samples to align with the latest version, showcasing proficiency in networking and sample maintenance for the Azure Sphere.
azure-spherespherehardwareazureiot
dafang982/azure-cli-extensions
Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 months
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