Liqian Luo
Partner Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolLiqian Luo is a Partner Software Engineering Manager based in the Greater Seattle Area with a decade of professional experience and a deep academic foundation including a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC. Currently leading engineering efforts for Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft, she combines cloud-native product leadership with hands-on technical direction. Before Microsoft she spent over a decade at Google as a Senior Staff Software Engineer and tech lead manager, driving large-scale systems and cross-team delivery. Her trajectory from postdoctoral research to senior engineering leadership reflects a strong blend of research rigor and production-grade software craftsmanship. Peers describe her as a leader who translates complex distributed-systems challenges into pragmatic roadmaps that enable reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (31)
application-management10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
azure-kubernetes-service10
rest10
azure10
rest-api10
openapi10
stackdriver9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
multi-cluster9
google9
azure-resource-manager9
trace8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
circy9/storage-test
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Test different storage options for Kubernetes
Contributions:1 review, 63 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
kubernetes
circy9/multi-cluster-test
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Tests and PoCs for multi-cluster tools
Contributions:18 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
multi-cluster
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