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Redmond, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Manage a team owning the servicing work for some fundamental, kernel mode components in Windows network stack, like NDIS, TCPIP, VMSwitch, Winnat, VFP(Virtual Filter Platform), etc. We are responsible to investigate very complex and extensive networking issues reported by our partners and customers, and seek for the solution either to work around or resolve it through bug fixes and DCRs. This job provided unique opportunity to understand how the most complex network infrastructure in Azure, Azure Stack are built up from scratch, and to contribute to the quick emergence of SDN and container networking.

Redmond, Wa, Usa

Worked in the networking team of the Windows Servicing Division. Was responsible for security and functional fixes/DCRs for some Windows kernel networking drivers including NDIS, TCPIP and Winnat, as well as data path components in SDN and Container networks.

Beijing City, China

Worked together with peer dev to implement video processing pipeline for Lync (Teams/Skype) media stack on Mac/Xbox platforms.Test Development for Lync Media Monitoring Sever to collect audio metrics and improve audio quality.

Beijing City, China

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China