Xiaoyu Li

About Xiaoyu Li

Product leader and architect at Microsoft Data Warehouse group. My focus is on SQL query optimization for distributed data warehouses in the cloud. Our team\'s innovations deliver fast query performance, concurrency, and user experiences out of the box for complex workloads. With deep technical knowledge in data technology and robust background in full lifecycle of cloud services, and cloud engineering system, I\'ve successfully led many critical product developments and releases across core product organizations in Microsoft, including Azure Data warehouse, Azure SQL Database, Azure Availability Zone, and on-premium SQL servers. I build strong partnership with engineering leaders, translate complex technical challenges into solutions that advance both product excellence and customer satisfaction.

Experience

1. Principal Product Architect Azure Fabric Warehouse

   Microsoft

   Apr 2025 — Present

   Drive innovations in data analytics products within the Azure Fabric Warehouse team at Microsoft. Focus on AI, query optimizer, distributed query processor, using AI and insights for performance auto-tuning and enhancing BI developer experience.

Education

• Arizona State University

  Master of Science, Information Management

Skills

• Strategic Customer & Partnership Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Resiliency
• Cloud Computing
• Sql
• Agile Project Management
• Large Scale System
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Mobile Devices
• Program Management
• Testing
• Software Development
• Database in the Cloud
• Software Design
• Sql & Sql Azure
• Distributed Systems
• Enterprise Software
• Software Engineering
• Sql Azure
• Cloud Capacity Management
• Windows Azure
• Software Project Management
• Resiliency and High Availability in the Cloud
• Databases
• V.1 Product Evangelization