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Michael Chen Wang
Senior Software Engineer

Building Scalable Cloud Systems at Microsoft.

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About

Engineer & Researcher

I'm a Senior Software Engineer based in Costa Rica, working at Microsoft on scalable cloud systems and global policy infrastructure.

My work spans migrating legacy services to Kubernetes, building change management systems, and developing internal SDKs that standardize messaging layers across the organization. I enjoy tackling complex infrastructure challenges and improving reliability at scale.

When I'm not engineering, you'll find me on hiking trails through Costa Rica's cloud forests, perfecting my pour-over coffee, or exploring the subtle world of single-origin teas.

Core Expertise

System Design.NetAzure ServicesSyntheticsPowerShellPythonCosmosDBKubernetesIaC

Interests

HikingCoffeeTeaNature PhotographyResearch

Research & Projects

Featured Work

Research in Progress

Currently exploring topics related to explainable AI (XAI) — investigating methods to make machine learning models more interpretable and transparent.

Deep LearningXAI

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Experience

Career Timeline

  1. Sep 2023 – Present · Costa Rica

    Senior Software Engineer

    Microsoft

    • ·Led projects to modernize legacy systems by migrating services to Kubernetes environments, resulting in improved scalability and efficiency.
    • ·Developed and implemented a change management system that significantly improved the stability and reliability of global policies.
    • ·Engineered and launched a feature to streamline user policy management, enhancing system stability, reliability, and performance.

  2. May 2021 – Sep 2023 · Costa Rica

    Software Engineer II

    Microsoft

    • ·Developed a streamlined solution for rapid updates to emergency number profiles, deprecating a legacy system with a 24-hour update cycle and providing on-call engineer tools.
    • ·Migrated a legacy service to highly secure, government-regulated cloud environments, leveraging infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for automated provisioning and standardization.
    • ·Developed a widely-adopted SDK that streamlined development workflows and enforced standardization across the organization's publish-subscribe (PubSub) messaging layer.

  3. Jul 2019 – Apr 2021 · Costa Rica

    Software Development Engineer

    Intel Corporation

    • ·Developed and launched a SaaS-based search solution in 4 months, boosting performance by 90% for over 17 million annual searches.
    • ·Researched, designed and built site-wide breadcrumbs that unifies different solutions into a single design.
    • ·Enhanced the CI/CD process for Intel's microsites by simplifying the tech stack by 30% and automating deployments and testing using Python, GitLab, Cypress, S3 Bucket, and Akamai CLI.

  4. Feb 2019 – Jul 2019 · Costa Rica

    Java Developer

    3M

    • ·Designed a new feature that allowed a better integration between the batching service and the DAM.

  5. Jun 2017 – Feb 2019 · Costa Rica

    Software Development Engineer in Tests

    Intel Corporation

    • ·Enabled the CI/CD process by automating test cases, creating frameworks and setting up the pipeline.