Victor Lu
Principal SW Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarVictor Lu is a seasoned engineering leader based in Portland, Oregon, currently serving as Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with a career spanning senior technical and management roles across Microsoft, Salesforce, McAfee, and others. He brings deep experience in leading cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale enterprise software, moving from hands-on solution architect and dev lead roles to strategic engineering management. Known for bridging technical depth with people leadership, he has repeatedly advanced teams through growth and complex platform transitions. His track record includes long-tenured leadership at major security and analytics firms, underscoring strength in building reliable, production-grade systems. Despite a formal experience summary listing five years, his progressive roles since the mid-1990s reflect decades of practical software and management expertise.
5 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (20)
distributed-tracing10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
microsoft-azure10
asp-net10
ilogger10
opentelemetry10
netcore10
logging10
telemetry10
azure-monitor9
protobuf7
azure7
monitoring5
observability3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
victlu/opentelemetry-specification
Feb 2021 - Apr 2026
Specifications for OpenTelemetry
Contributions:32 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
tracingspecificationsmetricsopen-telemetryopentelemetry
noahfalk/opentelemetry-dotnet
Feb 2021 - May 2021
The OpenTelemetry .NET Client
Contributions:32 reviews, 4 PRs, 82 pushes in 3 months
tracingopentelemetry
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