Ying Hua
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYing Hua is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of engineering experience and over 9 years in management, specializing in Cloud and AI-driven content platforms. She leads high-performing teams that operate at massive scale—powering Microsoft Learn’s pipeline that processes millions of files daily and serves tens of millions of monthly users—while driving AI transformations that delivered $2M+ in annual savings and earned multiple organizational awards. A hands-on architect and builder, she has re-architected build systems to achieve 5x–30x performance gains and reduced recovery time for 100+ microservices from days to under an hour. Ying combines deep technical chops (including contributions to open-source tooling like DocFX) with people development, security and compliance leadership, and a knack for piloting emerging agentic AI patterns into everyday engineering workflows. Based in Shanghai, she is known for turning complex trade-offs into pragmatic long-term designs and for cultivating learning cultures that measurably improve employee engagement.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Suzhou High SchoolMaster, Communication and Information Systems, EE, Master, Communication and Information Systems, EE at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
html-parsing10
dotnet-core10
documentation9
testing9
markdown-it8
markdown8
static-site-generator8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/docfx
Dec 2015 - Oct 2022
Static site generator for .NET API documentation.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:402 reviews, 110 commits, 243 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ying primarily contributed to the DocFX project by adding functionality to calculate word counts for conceptual documents and integrating this feature into the build process. Their work involved creating a `WordCounter.cs` file, which contains the logic to calculate the word count using HTML parsing. In addition, the user modified the build steps and configurations to include the word count, and also added tests for the `WordCounter`.
dotnetstatic-site-generatormarkdownapicsharp
herohua/sync-repo-A
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:34 PRs, 147 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
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