Huizhe Xiao
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolHuizhe Xiao is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of cross-stack experience building high-performance, production-grade systems across cloud, edge, web and real-time consumer products. Currently at Microsoft he led a next-gen monitoring solution for Azure Edge that slashed memory/CPU footprint to 30–50% of competitors, enabled backward-compatible formats, and created a high-availability runtime to migrate legacy software to Kubernetes in months rather than years. Previously he founded and scaled an interactive e-commerce gaming startup to thousands of users and multi-million RMB monthly revenue, and as Tech VP built a 30+ engineer R&D organization that improved onboarding conversion and service uptime via a data-driven “Data watcher” practice. Comfortable leading, solo-building or mentoring distributed teams, he pairs hands-on implementation (C#, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Prometheus, LLMs) with product-minded metrics and operational rigor. Fluent in English and experienced in both B2B and B2C domains, he blends entrepreneurial grit with enterprise-scale systems design.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, Computer Science, bachelor, Computer Science at Shanghai University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (51)
embedded-javascript10
cordova-plugin10
camera-preview10
ejs10
cordova9
javascript9
camera9
interaction9
embedded9
java8
objective-c7
auto-release6
ruby-on-rails6
openfire6
fabric6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
huxia/thumbnaild
Mar 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:24 commits in 8 months
thumbnailserverlessmissingaws-s3aws
huxia/fast.quadtree.ts
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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