Summary
Li Li is a seasoned engineering leader with 10+ years at Microsoft, known for building multiple high-impact teams and shipping foundational products from Windows media components to cloud-native confidential computing. He founded and scaled Azure Confidential Computing and the Azure Core Mission Critical Engineering teams, co-founded the Confidential Computing Consortium, and originated the Open Enclave SDK—demonstrating a rare mix of product vision, open-source stewardship, and deep platform delivery. Li combines hands-on technical expertise in containerization, orchestration, and media systems with strategic program-building skills, repeatedly creating teams and shipping first-of-their-kind releases showcased at major industry keynotes. Based in Redmond and an HBS PLD alumnus, he brings both engineering depth and executive-level business acumen to make mission-critical cloud platforms more secure and operationally resilient.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS/MS Computer Science, BS/MS Computer Science at Xi'an Jiaotong University
PLD - An accelerated alternative to the executive MBA, PLD - An accelerated alternative to the executive MBA at Harvard Business School
MSc Computer, MSc Computer at Old Dominion University