Pengfei Huang
Engineering Manager at Google
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPengfei Huang is an engineering manager with 13+ years building global-scale Compute, Data, ML, and AI infrastructure, currently leading AI & Compute efforts at Google from the Greater Seattle Area. He combines deep hands-on systems expertise—bare-metal and hybrid-cloud Kubernetes, distributed AI pipelines, and modular data centers—with founder-like speed and a model-coach-care leadership style that grows autonomous, cross-regional teams. Previously he led AI infrastructure and HIPAA-aligned platforms at Curative AI and engineered edge and autonomous systems platforms at Armada and CreateAI, delivering production-grade platforms for simulation, autonomous vehicles, and healthcare intelligence. A former long-time contributor to Azure core projects (top 5 contributor to azure-powershell) and multiple Azure SDKs, he brings significant open-source and cloud-provider operational experience to platform reliability and observability. Known for turning complexity into clarity, he treats architecture like a high-throughput distributed cache—optimizing for low latency, rapid iteration, and durable documentation. Beyond technical delivery, he drives compliance, cost optimization, and cross-functional programs that enable large-scale product and business growth.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Software and Theory, M.S., Computer Software and Theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering at Tongji UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
azure-sdk10
testing10
cloud-infrastructure10
kubernetes-operator10
microsoft-azure10
resource-management10
azure-resource-manager10
go10
api10
dotnet-core10
resource-manager10
azure10
nodejs10
csharp10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Nov 2014 - Feb 2018
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1140 commits, 57 PRs, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pengfei's commits primarily involve merging branches and resolving conflicts. The frequent merging activity suggests the user is integrating changes from other developers and contributing to the main codebase. The specific changes involving files within "src/ResourceManager/Compute/Commands.Compute.Test" and "src/ServiceManagement/RemoteApp/Commands.RemoteApp" suggest that the user is working on the backend logic and potentially testing related to Azure resource management, particularly concerning virtual machines and remote application deployment.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
May 2014 - Apr 2016
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:245 commits, 37 PRs, 79 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Pengfei primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Compute/Storage/Management APIs within the .NET SDK. Their work involved modifications to core code files, specifically around areas like Compute Management and storage services. These changes appear related to sharing and unreplicating OS images and modifying assembly file versions. Additionally, the user addressed code review comments, fixing issues and updating project files, and adding new files, indicating active participation in code development and maintenance.
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
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