Zhe Li
Principle Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
Suzhou City, Jiangsu, China
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Top SchoolZhe Li is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 13 years of experience leading teams that ship developer tools, IoT and front-end solutions. With a master's in computer vision from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and early algorithm work at the Institute of Computing Technology, he blends research-grade technical depth with product-focused engineering. At Microsoft he progressed through hands-on engineering and technical leadership roles to drive large-scale projects and mentoring across distributed teams. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the popular VS Code Arduino extension—adding serial port features, multi-workspace support and build-path fixes—and implemented UI for a browser authenticator extension, signaling a rare combination of embedded/IoT and front-end fluency. Based in Suzhou, he pairs pragmatic shipping instincts ("I write code") with a penchant for solving edge-case platform and tooling issues that quietly improve developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree - Computer Vision, Master's degree - Computer Vision at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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Github Skills (23)
visual-studio-code-extension10
css10
chrome-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
vue10
html10
webextension10
serial-communication10
arduino10
vue-jsx10
c-language9
cprogramming-language9
embedded8
iot8
sys8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-arduino
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Visual Studio Code extension for Arduino
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:88 commits, 148 PRs, 147 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Zhe primarily contributed to the Arduino Visual Studio Code extension. Their work involved modifying the extension's handling of serial port communication, including adding line ending options, and creating the UI elements. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to portable package support and the location of package folders and adding the absolute path for build output. In addition, the user made changes to support multi-workspace functionality and updated include paths in the configuration, as well as other fixes.
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionvisual-studio-code-extensionarduino
Authenticator-Extension/Authenticator
Dec 2017 - Apr 2022
Authenticator generates 2-Step Verification codes in your browser.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 74 reviews, 254 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Zhe implemented the UI for a browser extension designed to generate two-factor authentication codes. The user added a CSS file for the font-awesome library. The user also made changes to the HTML and Vue components.
authenticatorverification-codesbrowseredge-extensionsecurity
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