Yan Xu
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Xu is a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native services and platform tooling. He has a strong Java and Spring Boot background from maintaining billion-user platforms at China Unicom and has transitioned to Azure-focused engineering work, contributing backend and cloud expertise to the widely used Azure PowerShell repo—implementing AKS, Key Vault, and compute enhancements and replacing management SDKs with auto-generated C# code. Based in Redmond, he pairs production-grade platform troubleshooting and disaster recovery experience with hands-on work in API versioning, feature flags, and node-level capabilities like NodeOsSKU and EnableUltraSSD. He holds a master’s in Computer Technology and a bachelor’s in IoT Engineering, and uniquely bridges large-scale distributed systems knowledge with cloud SDK and automation contributions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Technology, Master's degree, Computer Technology at East China Normal UniversityBachelor's degree, Internet of Things Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Internet of Things Engineering at Qingdao University
Github Skills (18)
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
azure-aks10
azure-kubernetes-service10
code-generation10
sdk10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
azure10
cloud-services10
csharp10
azurerm9
kubernetes9
apidoc9
kubernetes-pods9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:4 releases, 441 reviews, 20 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yan primarily contributed to the `azure/azure-powershell` repository by implementing and updating various Azure-related features, specifically focusing on key vault, compute, and AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) modules. Their work involved replacing existing management SDKs with auto-generated C# code, bumping API versions, adding support for new parameters and functionalities like NodeOsSKU, NodeLabels, Tags, EnableEncryptionAtHost, and EnableUltraSSD. These contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the functionality and capabilities of the Azure PowerShell modules.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
YanaXu/azure-powershell.fork
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Contributions:26 releases, 94 PRs, 216 pushes in 2 years 9 months
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellsccmmicrosoft-azureazure
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