Summary
Haoyue Zhao is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in backend development, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure, currently contributing to Azure SQL at Microsoft. Previously at VMware, Haoyue worked on vSAN's Cluster-Level Object Manager, designing placement and resiliency logic for a production hyperconverged storage system running in the ESXi kernel. Skilled in C/C++, Go, Python and Java, he pairs systems-level programming with cloud-native tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform to deliver scalable, reliable services. His research background includes ML-driven security and cryptanalysis projects at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he published work applying deep learning and NLP to vulnerability detection and cryptographic attacks. Having earned graduate training at Carnegie Mellon and NYU, he blends rigorous academic methods with hands-on engineering across databases, big-data pipelines, and storage systems. Based in the Bay Area, Haoyue brings a pragmatic focus on performance and policy-driven automation that often surfaces in low-level, high-impact system components.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at New York University
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Taiyuan Li Gong Daxue
Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University