Xiaolu Dai
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Minhang District, Shanghai, China
Summary
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RockstarXiaolu Dai is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in backend systems using Java and Go, currently based in Minhang District, Shanghai and working at Microsoft. She has hands-on expertise in Spring Boot and cloud authentication/authorization, contributing notable fixes and migrations for Azure SDK for Java and the widely used azure-spring-boot starters. Her work spans dependency upgrades, CI/CD and DevOps improvements, integration testing, and resolving complex MSI/Key Vault authentication issues in production-grade libraries. Xiaolu’s contributions include refactoring tests, improving build stability, and migrating services like DocumentDB to CosmosDB—demonstrating both code-level craftsmanship and release engineering savvy. Colleagues can rely on her to bridge developer experience and platform reliability, especially in cloud identity scenarios. An understated strength is her pattern of improving upstream open-source tooling to reduce operational friction for large enterprise consumers.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (21)
authorizations10
azure-sdk10
azure-keyvault10
user-authentication10
authentication10
microsoft-azure10
java10
cosmosdb10
javas10
authorization10
vault10
spring-boot10
azure10
testing9
cicd9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-spring-boot
Aug 2019 - Apr 2022
Spring Boot Starters for Azure services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 56 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Xiaolu primarily contributed to fixing authentication issues, upgrading dependencies, and refactoring code related to Azure Key Vault integration within the Spring Boot framework. They addressed MSI authentication problems, updated library versions, and migrated from DocumentDB to CosmosDB. Additionally, the user worked on release management tasks, including version updates and dependency upgrades. Furthermore, the user implemented integration tests, enhanced the build process with plugins like Checkstyle and Findbug, and improved the CI/CD pipeline.
azure-documentdbmicrosoftspring-socialazure-active-directorymedia-services
Azure/azure-sdk-for-java
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Java. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/java/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 2513 reviews, 247 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Xiaolu's commits focus on migrating Spring Boot AAD (Azure Active Directory) starters to the SDK repository, which included updating pom.xml files, changing branch coverage, and fixing build errors. They were involved in refactoring tests, upgrading dependencies such as nimbus-jose-jwt, and adding Java documentation. The commits indicate a strong involvement in Spring Boot-related development within the context of Azure SDK, with a focus on authentication and authorization functionalities.
azure-resourcesversionedazure-functionssdkazure-services
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