Qi Ni
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolQi Ni is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with 8 years’ experience specializing in Kubernetes, Cluster Autoscaler, and Azure cloud provider integrations, particularly for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Based in Sydney, Qi has driven upstream cloud-provider-azure improvements that materially reduced load balancer provisioning time and increased load balancer capacity for large clusters. Their open-source contributions span core projects like kubernetes, autoscaler, and AgentBaker, where they focused on robust testing, CI/CD hardening, dependency management, and Windows node provisioning. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and cloud-native infrastructure, Qi combines production-grade code changes with practical test and deployment automation. A background in communication and electrical engineering underpins a systems-oriented approach to scalable cloud services.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Communication Engineering, Master's degree, Communication Engineering at East China Normal UniversityBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Nanjing Normal University
Github Skills (28)
unit-testing10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
testing10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
go-testing10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
azure10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Cloud provider for Azure
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:25 releases, 440 reviews, 578 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Qi primarily focused on improving the testing and deployment processes within the cloud-provider-azure repository. Their contributions include updating the aks-engine version and azure cli to stable versions in build scripts, enabling and configuring the execution of end-to-end (e2e) tests, and increasing the interval and timeout settings for the virtual machine scale set (VMSS) operations. Furthermore, the user updated the deploy scripts for the capz cluster and modified the e2e testing documentation, indicating a focus on streamlining the CI/CD and deployment workflows for Azure infrastructure.
providerazure-functionscloudcloud-providersk8s-sig-cloud-provider
Azure/AgentBaker
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Agent Baker is aiming to provide a centralized, portable k8s agent node provisioning lib as well as rich support on different OS image with optimized k8s binaries.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 14 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Qi primarily contributes to the `agentbaker` repository by modifying build configurations and dependencies for Kubernetes agent nodes. Their work includes adding and updating container images, specifically focusing on Azure Cloud Node Manager versions and CSI driver versions. The contributions involve updating the `install-dependencies.sh`, `configure-windows-vhd.ps1`, and `test/windows-vhd-content-test.ps1` files to reflect these changes. Additionally, they have addressed issues related to Windows CSE script execution.
provisioningvhdagentcloud-initaiming
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