Summary
Houyuan Sha is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with 8 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently contributing to Azure OneDeploy to enable reliable deployments across millions of blades and billions of VMs. He holds a master’s in Computer Science from UIUC with a perfect GPA and strong foundations in distributed systems, AWS, Elasticsearch, databases, and Linux. His background includes implementing S3 synchronization and DynamoDB-based coordination at Quicket and CI-driven firmware testing at Dell, reflecting a blend of cloud-native and low-level systems expertise. Comfortable across the stack with frontend and Docker experience, he focuses on delivering production-grade, highly available services and surfacing subtle race-condition and timeout issues early in development.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Advanced Software Engineering, Computer Science, Advanced Software Engineering, Computer Science at CodePath