Rita Hui
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRita Hui is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Mountain View with a seven-year tenure in senior leadership roles focused on networking software for cloud and hardware platforms. She leads the SONiC team at Microsoft Azure and drives OCP SAI integration, blending systems-level protocol expertise with product-scale delivery. Her career includes progressive engineering leadership at Extreme Networks and Brocade, where she moved from hands-on technical roles to director-level management of complex switch and networking software stacks. Rita pairs an electrical engineering background with executive MBAs from UC Berkeley and Columbia, giving her both deep technical fluency and strategic business judgment. Notably, she contributes to the open SAI standard—maintaining API versioning and core headers—which underscores attention to interoperability and long-term platform stability. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic connector who translates low-level interface work into cloud-scale network features.
7 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Columbia Business SchoolExecutive MBA, Executive MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessB.A.Sc. Electrical Engineering, B.A.Sc. Electrical Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (4)
c1710
header-files10
c1110
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opencomputeproject/SAI
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Switch Abstraction Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:124 reviews, 12 commits, 186 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rita primarily focused on updating the SAI version, specifically updating the version numbers in header files. They also reverted a change related to a LAG attribute. Their work involved modifying header files and versioning, demonstrating a focus on the SAI API versioning within the larger project. This suggests a role in maintaining and updating the core interface definitions of the project.
switchabstraction
rlhui/SAI
Mar 2021 - Jan 2024
Switch Abstraction Interface
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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