Menghua Xiao
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolMenghua Xiao is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Shanghai with 13 years of experience building cloud-native services and developer tooling. At Microsoft she progressed from senior engineer to principal manager, shipping CI/CD Jenkins plugins and contributing backend code to the widely used Azure PowerShell repository—adding SignalR SDK generation and management cmdlets that improve operator experience. Her background includes low-latency trading systems at Morgan Stanley, giving her strong expertise in performance-sensitive, production-grade engineering. She holds both bachelor's and master's degrees from Fudan University in software engineering and computer software theory. Known for blending hands-on coding with people leadership, she moves between architecting SDKs and running teams that deliver reliable cloud services. Less obvious: her mix of financial-engineering experience and deep Azure platform contributions makes her especially effective at bridging operational rigor with developer ergonomics.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software and Theory, Master's degree, Computer Software and Theory at Fudan University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (21)
microsoft-azure10
signalr10
ruby10
html10
powershell10
azure10
apidoc9
css9
sdk9
code-generation9
api9
ruby-on-rails9
azure-powershell8
arm7
hash6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Menghua's primary contribution centers around generating SDK source code, specifically for SignalR operations. This involved adding and integrating auto-generated code for interacting with the Azure SignalR service, evident from the inclusion of interface definitions. Furthermore, the user added new cmdlets like `Get-AzureRmSignalR` and related functionalities for managing and retrieving SignalR keys, enhancing the usability of the Azure PowerShell module. They also implemented the command to regenerate keys.
microsoft-azurepowershellazuremicrosoft-azure-powershellarm
jenkinsci/azure-acs-plugin
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
Azure Container Services plugin for Jenkins enables deploying containerized Java apps to Docker on Azure.
Contributions:98 commits, 17 PRs, 28 pushes in 9 months
azureazure-container-servicedockerjavajenkins
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