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 (54)
vector-search10
data-migration10
apache-airflow10
key-value-database10
consensus10
data-pipelines10
python10
mysql10
data-science10
agentic10
data-engineering10
tidb10
rocksdb10
key-value10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
michaelmdeng/mdcli
Jun 2022 - Jan 2026
Contributions:9 PRs, 71 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
michaelmdeng/mindmap
Jan 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:67 PRs, 90 pushes, 33 branches in 8 months
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