Tianqi Zhang
Sr. Strategy Manager
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTianqi Zhang is a strategic technology leader with 10 years of experience bridging semiconductor process engineering and business strategy, now serving as Sr. Strategy Manager at Microsoft after roles at McKinsey and multiple engineering leadership positions at Intel. Holding a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a dual BA in Chemistry and Economics, Tianqi combines deep technical rigor with commercial acumen to drive operational improvements and strategic initiatives. At Intel they progressed from senior process engineer to technician manager and staff engineer, demonstrating hands-on process optimization and people leadership in high‑volume manufacturing. At McKinsey they translated technical expertise into client-facing strategy work, then moved to Microsoft to shape broader product and business decisions. An under-the-radar strength is their documentation and tooling contributions to the popular dotnet/docfx project, showing care for developer experience and reproducible knowledge workflows. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, Tianqi excels at turning complex technical constraints into actionable strategic plans across engineering and business stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Chemistry, PhD, Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry and Economics with Honors, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry and Economics with Honors at Grinnell College
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
markdown10
static-site-generation10
markdown-it10
csharp10
documentation10
dotnet-core10
yaml10
xslt9
dotnet-new9
api9
dotnet9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/docfx
Jul 2017 - Aug 2021
Static site generator for .NET API documentation.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:6 reviews, 34 commits, 45 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tianqi primarily contributed to improving the documentation generation process within the `dotnet/docfx` repository. Their work involved transforming and enhancing comment tags like `paramref`, `typeparamref`, and `languageKeyword` to be rendered correctly within the generated documentation. They added new member types such as `AttachedEvent` and `AttachedProperty` and updated JavaScript files to include those. Additionally, they introduced and refined the YamlSplitter tool, supporting various operational modes and streamlining the management of documentation fragments.
apidotnetstatic-siteapi-documentationsite-generator
TianqiZhang/ref102
Sep 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:15 PRs, 119 pushes, 35 branches in 7 years 4 months
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