Nicolas Zhang
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolNicolas Zhang is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Shanghai with nine years of professional experience and a longer engineering background spanning C++, C#, Ruby on Rails, Scala, and cloud infrastructure. Having progressed from core Windows component development at Autodesk to leading backend architecture and performance tuning, he now drives engineering and delivery at Microsoft with a focus on scalable services and developer productivity. He blends hands-on coding and tech‑lead responsibilities—design reviews, bottleneck identification, and infrastructure automation—so he stays close to both code and systems. Notably comfortable across compiled systems and modern web stacks, he brings pragmatic cross‑stack insight that helps teams evolve architectures without losing operational velocity.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (20)
microsoft10
dotnet10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
rest10
arm10
powershell10
rest-api10
azure10
openapi10
azure-sdk9
apache-atlas6
apache-spark5
spark3
azure-eventhub3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nabhishek/SelfHosted-IntegrationRuntime_AutomationScripts
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:13 commits in 11 months
nicolaszhang/azure-rest-api-specs
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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