Yan Li
Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Li is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with over a decade at Microsoft, currently leading M365 Core after a long tenure driving commerce and payment systems within the company. Based in Shanghai and educated in Computer Software Engineering at Fudan University, he blends deep product-domain experience in commerce with platform and core service leadership. Yan is known for moving from hands-on SDET beginnings to architecting large-scale, customer-facing systems and mentoring engineering teams through complex migrations and feature delivery. His trajectory shows a rare combination of institutional knowledge across Visual Studio, payments, commerce, and now productivity platforms, enabling cross-domain solutions and operational excellence. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical strategy that balances scalability, reliability, and business impact.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Fudan University
Github Skills (6)
artificial-intelligence10
openai10
sdk10
ai10
llm10
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yan-li/semantic-kernel
Jul 2023 - Jan 2024
Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily into your apps
Contributions:34 pushes, 17 branches in 6 months
yan-li/chat-copilot
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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