Summary
Daniel Qiu is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 12 years of experience building highly available, scalable cloud and mobile systems. He leads Azure Core teams responsible for Azure Autopilot and cloud hardware provisioning, and previously drove fundamentals and observability for Azure Storage across control and data planes. His background spans front-end and back-end development from launching Nokia’s first online store with 16M daily downloads to architecting multi-tenant MDM backends at a startup, giving him rare end-to-end product perspective. A compassionate, resourceful leader and coach, he unites cross-functional teams around clear goals and pragmatic engineering principles. He blends technical rigor with a philosophical focus on Simplicity, Compassion, and Grit, and keeps a broader worldview through photography and travel.
12 years of coding experience