Michael Deng
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Deng is a Principal Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems and consumer-facing features across AWS and Kubernetes environments. A Duke University double-major in ECE and CS, he has led cross-functional engineering efforts at Amazon—shipping Alexa Home Modes to over a million customers—and modernized Appian’s deployment platform to manage 1,200+ sites on 1,500 EC2 instances. He combines systems-level infrastructure work (Terraform, EKS, Operators, Vault) with product-driven frontend experience (React drag-and-drop designers), regularly orchestrating multi-team roadmaps and service architectures. Now at Microsoft driving Enterprise Copilot, he brings proven skill in turning complex distributed requirements into reliable production services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep technical breadth with clear technical vision and hands-on execution.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (68)
complement10
postgresql10
python10
rocksdb10
dm10
tikv10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
distributed-transactions10
serverless10
orchestration10
cloud-native10
operator10
foundationdb10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
michaelmdeng/mindmap
Jan 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:67 PRs, 90 pushes, 33 branches in 8 months
michaelmdeng/midenrc
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 1 year 6 months
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