Junjie Gao
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolJunjie Gao is a cloud and backend-focused software engineer with seven years’ experience building high-performance infrastructure for major tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Tencent and Huawei. Currently a Software Engineer 2 on Azure Container Registry and Notation at Microsoft, he has a strong track record in container tooling, DevOps integrations and network performance optimization. His academic foundation includes an MS in Computer Science from USC (3.94 GPA) and a published undergraduate research project on ML-driven virtual machine placement. Practical highlights include improving Azure Pipelines tasks (notably Key Vault and workload identity support) and boosting Google’s networking performance through NUMA-aware parallelism. Comfortable moving between kernel, cloud control plane and CI/CD automation, he is also an active open-source contributor with a credo of “all in open source.”
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, GPA 3.94/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, GPA 3.94/4.0 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, 90/100, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, 90/100 at Anhui Normal University
Github Skills (9)
azure-pipelines10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
cicd10
azure-keyvault10
dockers9
yaml9
docker9
plugin-development8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 26 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Junjie primarily focuses on enhancing the Azure Pipelines tasks, specifically related to the Notation task. They implemented features like workload identity support for the Azure Key Vault plugin. Moreover, the user fixed warnings, bumped up the notation and Azure Key Vault plugin versions, and added timestamp support. The user's contributions also include updates to checksum generation and other internal code improvements.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
notaryproject/tspclient-go
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Golang implementation of the Time-Stamp Protocol (TSP) client as specified in RFC3161
Contributions:67 reviews, 9 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
gorfc3161timestamp
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