Liangying Wei
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolLiangying Wei is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in real-time cloud communication services, currently building and evolving Azure Web PubSub and SignalR at Microsoft from Shanghai. He combines deep backend engineering—contributions to the Azure SDK for JavaScript and .NET tooling like docfx—with practical full‑stack sample work that helps developers onboard to real‑time platforms. Liangying has a track record of shipping new services, improving auth/connection workflows, and fixing subtle race and template-rendering bugs that surface only at scale. His roots in GIS and geology give him a systems-oriented perspective on complex distributed problems, and he frequently bridges open-source and enterprise code to make cloud real-time features more reliable and consumable.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Master's degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at Tongji University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (35)
javascript10
bicep10
net10
typescript10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
asp-net10
azure-signalr10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
netcore10
azure10
typescripts10
csharp10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/docfx
Jun 2015 - Jun 2018
Static site generator for .NET API documentation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 releases, 4 reviews, 975 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Liangying primarily contributed to the refactoring of the "docfx" static site generator by renaming files and modifying code related to configuration loading and initialization in `docfx.json`. The user also refactored build-related logic, restructured code, and updated template engines to enhance the functionality and address bugs within the documentation generator. Furthermore, they improved the template rendering process, including support for dynamic content generation and handling of external links.
apidotnetstatic-siteapi-documentationsite-generator
aspnet/AzureSignalR-samples
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
Code samples for Azure SignalR
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 18 commits, 94 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Liangying primarily focused on updating and enhancing the user interface of the Azure SignalR samples. They replaced existing chat-related sample scripts with CDN versions and updated the samples to use the latest .NET Core 2.1. Additionally, they added a simple sample code for ASP.NET Azure SignalR support, which included switching to NuGet versions and updating package versions across the project. Finally, they upgraded the samples to .NET Core 3.1 and updated the SignalR library version.
signalrsignalr-coreazuresignalr-clientazure-signalr
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