Tian Li
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Suzhou City, Jiangsu, United States
Summary
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RockstarTian Li is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Suzhou with seven years of focused experience leading high-scale, cloud-native infrastructure teams at Microsoft. He has driven Azure Commerce platform reliability and performance for services handling 100k+ requests per second, specializing in container orchestration, Kubernetes, Service Mesh/Istio, and observability with Prometheus. Progressing from software engineer to tech lead and now manager, he blends hands-on systems engineering with people leadership to deliver resilient, globally distributed services. Tian also contributes to open-source quality efforts—adding accessibility-focused unit tests and improving UI test reliability in the widely used microsoft/calculator project—showing a practical commitment to automation and inclusive UX. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving around large-scale distributed systems and a strong focus on testability and operational excellence.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
windows10
unit-testing10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
uwp9
cpp8
xaml7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/calculator
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:176 reviews, 58 commits, 197 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Tian's commits primarily focus on adding and modifying unit tests within the project. They introduced new unit test cases for the NarratorAnnouncement feature, ensuring correct behavior after bug fixes related to accessibility. The user also addressed test failures and improved the reliability of the UI tests, demonstrating a strong focus on quality assurance and automated testing practices within the Windows Calculator application. These changes included addressing an issue where the back button was inaccessible via keyboard.
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tian-lt/calculator
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows
Contributions:70 reviews, 53 PRs, 365 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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