Qian Y
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQian Y is a software engineer with nine years of experience, currently building cloud and DevOps tooling at Microsoft in Redmond. She combines strong analytical and quantitative instincts with practical engineering—contributing to high-profile Azure projects like azure-pipelines-tasks and Oryx to improve build, deployment, and Node/Helm workflows. Her background spans backend and data work: designing SQL queries and Python statistical/NLP pipelines at Mayo Clinic, researching historical banking data with SPSS, and running user-focused NLP studies during undergraduate research. Comfortable across languages and toolchains, she has a track record of turning research analytics into production-ready automation and developer-facing infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate, High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong KongBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Luther College
Chinese, English
Github Skills (17)
build-time10
buildx10
cicd10
build-engine10
build210
helm10
build-automation10
azure-pipelines10
nodejs10
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
python8
php8
configuration-management8
powershell7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Oryx
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
Build your repo automatically.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:487 reviews, 134 commits, 285 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Qian primarily focused on modifying and adding functionality related to build scripts, likely to automate the software building process. Their work involved removing unused variables, adding and modifying constants, and incorporating new tools and features like pre-run scripts to facilitate the build process for different platforms. The commits show work with Node.js, PHP, and Python build process.
container-buildernodejspythonazure
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Jun 2023 - Jun 2024
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:116 reviews, 117 PRs, 395 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Qian primarily focused on improving the infrastructure and build processes for Azure Pipelines tasks. Their contributions included addressing scenarios where connection types were missing and updating configuration settings for the Helm deployment tasks. Further improvements involved supporting Node 20 within the build configuration generation, and refactoring deployment tasks.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
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