Johnson Yang
Senior Dev Manager & Principal Eng Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJohnson Yang is a senior engineering leader with over 15 years of experience driving search, cloud, and big data initiatives at Microsoft, where he now serves as Senior Dev Manager and Principal Engineering Manager in Redmond. He combines deep technical roots—from SDE II to senior engineering roles—with domain expertise in Microsoft technologies, Azure, and Elasticsearch-powered search services. Earlier roles include building fixed-income financial systems at Thomson Reuters and leading outsourced healthcare engineering teams, showing versatility across regulated and consumer-facing domains. Johnson is known for translating complex distributed systems requirements into reliable, scalable services and for mentoring engineers through career transitions. His background in geophysics gives him a data-driven, analytical approach to problem solving that often surfaces non-obvious system improvements. Based in Redmond, he brings a steady mix of hands-on architecture, operational rigor, and cross-functional leadership to large-scale cloud search and data platforms.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachlor, Geophysics, Bachlor, Geophysics at China University of Geosciences
Github Skills (41)
opc10
microsoft10
command-line-interface10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
azure-iothub10
azure-cli10
azure-iot-edge10
azure-iot-central10
api10
rest10
command-line10
azure10
rest-api10
azure-iot-dps10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/azure-iot-central-samples-csharp
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
An sample project that interacts with Azure IoT Central rest APIs.
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
iot-centralazure-iot-centralazure-iotrestazure
yang-hai-feng/azure-cli-extensions
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Public Repository for Extensions of Azure CLI.
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 months
public-repositoryextensionsazureazure-clicli
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