Zhi George Qiao
Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Cloud Infrastructure Acceleration (DPU, SmartNIC, GPU, HPC)
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Zhi George Qiao
Distributed Systems & Storage Infrastructure Specialist with Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering and 8+ years of experience in large-scale storage systems, infrastructure automation, and reliability engineering. Currently at Microsoft Azure Storage, transforming next-generation heterogeneous storage platforms with DPU/GPU acceleration. Proven expertise in planetary-scale distributed storage systems, troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues, and implementing automated solutions that achieve up to 10x performance improvements. Authored more than 20 publications across multitude of topics, including storage reliability engineering, heterogeneous computing, and Cloud/Edge/HPC hyper-converged design. Serving as reviewer/TPC for prestigious journals and conferences (JPDC, TPDS, IPDPS, Access, NAS) since 2019; TPC co-chair for Cloud Summit 2022.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Jul 2022 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Advancing Azure Storage infrastructure through DPU offload — shifting core data-plane functionality onto Microsoft silicon to deliver efficient, scalable, and cloud-native acceleration. Enhancing system performance, reducing cost, and setting the foundation for the next wave of intelligent storage.
Education
University of North Texas
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science and Engineering
2015 — 2020
Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2007 — 2011
Arkansas State University
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science
2011 — 2014
Skills
- Cryptography
- Distributed Systems
- Parallel Computing
- Mapreduce
- System Administration
- Cuda
- Attribute Based Encryption
- Microsoft Office
- C++
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Sql
- Python
- Big Data Analytics
- Computer & Network Security
- Java
- Gpu
- Unix Shell Scripting
- R
- Database Administration
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