Joanna Leong
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoanna Leong is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native networking and identity systems, currently driving Azure Networking work on Microsoft’s Hybrid Distributed Controller team from Sunnyvale. She has deep expertise in .NET/C#, Azure services, Linux, and DevOps, and has owned management interfaces, REST APIs, .NET SDKs, and deployment pipelines across multiple Azure networking products. At Microsoft she contributed production-grade cmdlets and automation for Azure Firewall and Azure PowerShell, and her GitHub contributions include implementing SecureGateway functionality in the widely used azure-powershell repository. Previously at Atlassian she led user migration experiences and identity adoption efforts, delivering React and Scala solutions that simplified onboarding for acquired products. Joanna combines a strong engineering foundation from UC Davis with a knack for reducing operational friction—evidenced by automation that cut manual rack buildout lead times from weeks to days. She’s pragmatic, focused on shipping reliable, secure infrastructure, and experienced at collaborating across teams to bring complex cloud features to market.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (14)
powershell10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
networking10
apidoc9
cloud-infrastructure9
api9
cloud-services9
arm8
resource-manager8
azure-resource-manager8
devops8
dotnet-core7
csharp7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:114 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joanna made significant contributions to the `azure/azure-powershell` repository, specifically related to the implementation of SecureGateway functionalities. They added new classes and models for SecureGateway under the Commands.Network namespace, implementing several cmdlets for creating, getting, setting, and removing SecureGateways and associated rule collections. The user also introduced updates to existing models by adding properties such as provisioning state, virtual network, and virtual hub resources. Furthermore, they expanded the codebase by creating supporting cmdlets to configure application and network rule protocols, actions, and actions.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
joannakleong/azure-rest-api-specs
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:5 pushes in 8 days
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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