Jie Yang
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJie Yang is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building low-level networking and virtualization systems, currently working on Azure Confidential Computing at Microsoft. He brings deep expertise in Linux system programming, KVM/QEMU, LXC, and resource management for network processors, having driven virtualization and TCAM-management innovations across multiple Cisco platforms. A PhD in Electrical Engineering focused on communication networks underpins his strong background in routing, QoS, BGP/MPLS and network OS design, enabling him to bridge research-grade rigor with production delivery. Known for hands-on C development, GDB troubleshooting, and integrating orchestration tools like Puppet/Chef, he frequently operates at the intersection of kernel, firmware, and network control plane. An uncommonly practical researcher-engineer, he has delivered first-of-its-kind dynamic TCAM carving on ASR9k and led SDK features for Cisco’s newest NPUs.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyB.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at Xidian University
English, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
cisco/cisco-nxapi
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
cisco/cisco-network-node-utils
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 19 pushes in 1 month
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