Johnson Shi
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJohnson Shi is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft specializing in Azure's Kubernetes and container services, driving performance and scalability for HPC and AI training/inference workloads. With a decade of experience progressing from software engineer to senior PM, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps chops with product strategy to optimize Azure Container Registry, AKS, and OCI image workflows. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like Open Service Mesh and cloud-init, where his work improved CLI UX, reliability, and Azure network boot resiliency—visibility into non-obvious operational edge cases. Based in Seattle and grounded in a UNSW Computer Science background, he excels at translating low-level systems improvements into platform-level gains that enable large-scale cloud-native AI infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Chinese, English, Filipino, hokkien, Vietnamese
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Github Skills (18)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
cloud-init10
python10
testing10
microsoft-azure10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
azure10
command-line-interface9
network-configuration9
command-line9
error-handling9
cli9
devops8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/cloud-init
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:88 reviews, 14 PRs, 139 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Johnson primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the Azure-related code within the cloud-init project. Their work included enhancements to error handling, adding type hints, and refactoring the reporting of diagnostic events. They also focused on improving the reliability of network configuration in Azure environments by implementing fallback mechanisms and increasing retry attempts. The user's contributions also extended to writing tests and general code cleanup within the Azure-specific modules.
gcppythonagnosticinfrastructure-managementupstream
openservicemesh/osm
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:56 reviews, 36 commits, 50 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Johnson primarily contributed to testing and improving the Open Service Mesh (OSM) project's functionality and command-line interface. They added tests for various functionalities, including envoy package, event type, and the `osm uninstall` command. Additionally, the user refactored the `osm uninstall` command and updated the CLI to show the OSM version and namespace for various commands, improving user experience. The user also integrated support for SMI version information within the `osm mesh list` output.
observabilitymicroservicesecuremicroservicesextensible
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