Pengfei Ni
Principal Software Engineer Manager at 微软
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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RockstarPengfei Ni is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft Azure with 13 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes integrations, and software-defined networking. Based in Shanghai, he combines hands-on engineering with leadership across Azure AKS, AgentBaker, and the Azure cloud provider in upstream Kubernetes, helping bridge cloud-provider internals with Kubernetes core. A longtime maintainer of a popular open-source Kubernetes handbook and frequent speaker at KubeCon and ArchSummit, he translates complex distributed-systems topics into clear examples and diagrams (including PlantUML visualizations) for practitioners. His contributions span from core kubelet/CRI work and autoscaler Azure support to container networking tests and tooling, demonstrating a rare blend of product-grade cloud engineering, test automation, and system-level diagnostics.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (80)
controller10
python10
cloud-computing10
testing10
microsoft-azure10
c1110
azure-cli10
c1710
azure-aks10
infrastructure10
rest-api10
cri-o10
haproxy10
linux10
dockers10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
feiskyer/linux-perf-examples
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
极客时间《Linux 性能优化实战》案例
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Pengfei contributed significantly to performance analysis and optimization efforts within the repository. Their work included modifying code to increase I/O load, implementing options for disk selection and buffer size configuration. They also added examples of MySQL slow queries and a logging application, showcasing their proficiency in performance tuning techniques. Furthermore, the user demonstrated experience in setting up packet dropping and nginx throughput examples, hinting at DevOps or SRE skills.
perfperformance-analysisseccomplinuxperformance-tuning
kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools
Feb 2017 - Jan 2022
CLI and validation tools for Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI) .
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 115 reviews, 267 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pengfei primarily focused on improving the codebase's quality and maintainability. Their work included fixing linting issues and enabling boilerplate checking across the project. They also made significant contributions to the crictl CLI, improving the user experience and adding features like support for YAML configuration and environment variables. The user also set up CI/CD pipelines by adding several hack scripts, and refactored parts of the project.
containersvalidationcontainer-runtime-interfacek8s-sig-noderuntime
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