Benny Xiong

About Benny Xiong

Profile Summary• Highly-experienced and accomplished Lead Enterprise/Solution/Infrastructure/Cloud/AI Architect and technical leader/VP/Director with 20+ years of IT technology architecture, Enterprise and domain architecture, Solution Engineering Design, Cloud Ops, IT Infra Ops, Cloud AI Platform and Azure AI Apps Engineering and design experience.• Lately leading solution engineering in Microsoft MCAPS Azure & AI platform Application Innovation. • Excellent technical leadership experience managing architecture team, Cloud operation team, IT infra team, leading latest Generative and Agentic AI solution engineering, native cloud solution design; leading technical engagements and guiding teams through complex cloud transformations.• Solid knowledge in Azure AI Foundry, Azure Foundry SDK, Azure AI Services, Generative AI Apps, Agentic AI Apps, Migration Factory, Digital Transformation, Application modernization, Hybrid cloud and modern DC hosting, Digital Workplace, Collaboration, Cyber Security, Azure Sentinel, cloud-native SEIM and SOAR, Microsoft Co-pilot for Security, AI-Driven Cyber Security tool, MSP solutions.• Solid experience and knowledge in Micro services architecture design, Cloud native PaaS, containerised apps technologies, Kubernetes orchestration tools, Solid knowledge of Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Data Analytic, Big Data. • Excellent experience of Architecting and design on Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS, App modernization, Application & Database, Infrastructure, Architecture Governance, Risk and Compliance, Cyber Security, Data Analytic, Big Data, Azure SQL, MySQL, PostGreSQL, Redis Cache; Azure Blob, AFS, ALB, ASB, API, AKS, Oracle DB, Power BI, Azure DevOps, CI/CD; Solid knowledge of AWS and GCP solutioning and design.• Deep hands-on experience on Infra compute and storage build, FC SAN & NAS storage Setup, Unix/Linux OS provisioning, Solaris, RHEL Linux, ESXi, VCS Cluster, DNS setup, Oracle ERP & RAC, Apache/Tomcat/PHP, WAS, MQ, Unix/Linux Shell Scripting, automation, HA High Availability, DR Disaster Recovery, C/C++, Java/JSP/J2EE enterprise application development and coding, Applications configuration and deployment.

Experience

1. Lead Cloud & Ai Solution Engineer - Azure Ai & Apps

   Microsoft

   May 2025 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

   Azure AI & Apps.Leading Solution Engineering in Azure Cloud & AI Apps Innovation, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services; driving solution designs and implementations in Azure based AI Apps and Innovation.

Education

• San Jose State University

  M.S., Computer Engineering

Skills

• Unix
• Ecms
• Tomcat
• Jumpstart
• Solaris
• Solaris 10 Containers/Zones
• Fc San
• Equities and Future & Options Trading Applications
• Shell Scripting
• Hft Low Latency Trading Systems Technologies
• Sdlc
• Netbackup
• Infrastructure
• Dns
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Oracle Db
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Tivoli
• Opsware
• Vcs Cluster
• Apache
• Management
• Future Trends
• Veritas Volume Manager
• Nis
• Nas
• Nfs
• Kickstart
• IT Strategy
• Keon
• Data Center
• Disaster Recovery
• Investment Banking
• Mysql
• Solaris 8/9/10
• Lvm
• Vendor Management
• C/C++/Java
• Enterprise Architecture