Yisheng Yao
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYisheng Yao is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with two decades of software and research experience and over 7 years in senior engineering leadership roles. He has progressed through technical and management tracks at Microsoft since 2007, leading groups that deliver large-scale, production-grade software across the company. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an MS in Control Systems, he blends rigorous academic training with practical systems engineering and team-building expertise. Known for driving architectural clarity and mentoring engineering managers, he focuses on shipping reliable, scalable platforms while growing high-performing teams. Based in Redmond, he combines deep institutional knowledge of Microsoft with a researcher’s curiosity that surfaces in cross-disciplinary problem solving.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D. Computer Science, Ph. D. Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityB.S. Informance Science, B.S. Informance Science at Peking UniversityRui'an High SchoolMS Control Systems and Control Engineering, MS Control Systems and Control Engineering at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
English, Chinese
Github Skills (44)
python10
microsoft10
azure-sdk10
azure-functions10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
azure-machine-learning10
api10
sdk10
rest10
azure10
rest-api10
openapi10
data-science9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
seanyao1/azureml_managednetwork_dotnet_sample
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
Azure/azure-sdk-for-python
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/python/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-python.
Contributions:32 reviews, 21 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 8 months
pythonversionedazure-functionssdkazure-python
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