Kaiqi Zhang
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaiqi Zhang is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and high-throughput data systems across Microsoft, Google, Meta, and now Microsoft AI. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and Azure tooling—contributing to the widely used Azure CLI and aks-preview extensions to improve AKS addon management and feature support—and has driven BigQuery managed storage and streaming work at Google. Kaiqi blends backend and cloud engineering skills with production-focused reliability, having owned parts of AKS, Workplace Analytics, and recommendation system training data infra. His background spans embedded systems and battery management early in his career to advanced distributed systems, reflecting strong full-stack systems intuition. Based in Bellevue, WA, he holds an MS in Computer Science from Syracuse and a BS from Tsinghua, and he brings a pragmatic engineering approach that favors maintainability (e.g., refactors to constants and compatibility fixes) alongside feature delivery.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Syracuse UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Automotive Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Automotive Engineering at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (14)
azure-aks10
kubernetes10
azure10
azure-kubernetes-service10
cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-services10
microsoft-azure10
python10
kubernetes-pods10
azure-cli10
cloud-computing9
docker6
dockers6
github4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli-extensions
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
Public Repository for Extensions of Azure CLI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kaiqi contributed to the Azure CLI extensions, primarily focused on the `aks-preview` extension. Their work included fixing bugs, such as a case-sensitive issue in the AKS dashboard addon, and implementing improvements. They also made changes related to addon names and configurations, including enabling and disabling addons, and supporting new features such as NAT gateway configuration. The user also contributed code related to the management and update of addons within the AKS environment.
azure-cliazure-cli-extension
Azure/azure-cli
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kaiqi primarily contributed to the Azure CLI, focusing on the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) module. Their work involved fixing bugs, such as case-sensitive issues in the AKS dashboard addon, and implementing improvements by honoring addon names defined in the CLI. The user also updated the code to ensure compatibility with Kubernetes versions and refactored code to use constants for addon strings, improving maintainability.
azurecommand-line-interfaceazure-clicloud
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