Ying Xie
Principal Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYing Xie is a Principal Engineer based in Redmond with over two decades of experience building and productizing low-level communication software, and 12 years in senior engineering roles focused on storage and networking. A certified Scrum Master and seasoned firmware/driver expert, Ying has deep expertise in Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI, and IP-based protocols and has delivered drivers and communication suites for major vendors including Dell-EMC, YottaYotta, and Huawei. At Microsoft since 2017, Ying contributes to SONiC and cloud networking open-source efforts, bridging proprietary device knowledge with cloud-scale networking software. Known for diagnosing elusive software defects and automating communication performance and reliability testing, Ying blends hands-on C/C++ development with Python and Java tooling to drive product readiness. Colleagues rely on Ying for cross-version upgrade strategies and performance optimization of device firmware and drivers, a skill set honed across chip families like Tachyon, Emulex Lancer, and QLogic.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science., BSc Computer Science. at Peking University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
sles6
multipath6
caf5
opensuse5
linux4
suse4
moto4
4g3
linux-kernel3
kernel2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bq/aquaris-E5-4G
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Linux Kernel source code for the devices bq Aquaris E5 4G/E5S
Contributions:4 commits in 1 month
4glinux-kernel
openSUSE/multipath-tools-pre2021
Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
Old (pre-2021) SUSE/SLES fork of Linux multipath tools. See github.com/openSUSE/multipath-tools for current code.
Contributions:3 commits in 9 months
linuxmultipathopensuseslessuse
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