Hong Gao

I am hiring! https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1113630/Senior-Program-Manager Cloud monitoring; Azure Monitoring; GenAI App and LLM Observability, Open Telemetry; Application Performance Monitoring (APM); Application Insights; AIOps, Distributed Tracing / Metrics Platform, SLI SLO, Cloud monitoring for applications/services on VM, Azure Kubernetes, Azure Application Services

• Defined Windows Phone, tablet and PC communication story including Skype in Windows and other communication apps • Identified market opportunities for communication apps, provided thought leadership in creating cross screen calling experience among tablet, PC, phone and Xbox. • Delivered large scale distributed real time data pipeline and cloud services for monitoring and understanding client applications/cloud services/Azure resources, distill business insights / analytics from massive amount of data. The core capabilities below enable the magic of making data transform business 1. Collecting and integrating data from various different sources and platforms, 2. Performing complex time-based computations and aggregations in near real-time, 3. Enabling data monitoring, smart alerting through various statistical analysis, machine learning and powerful programming model 4. Streamlining diagnostics scenarios for both client and services, 5. Visualizing and sharing data insights with others through dashboards and reports. This resulted in 10x scale growth and cost saving, Millions $ saving across hundreds of MS teams with the new pipeline

. Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) . Social Gaming Platform; . XBox entertainment content acquisition, processing, match, merge, search; . Distributed and cloud computing; . Partnership management

. Web Search and information retrieval; . Business planning, road map and vision building; . Local Search content acqusition; . Search relevance, query parsing, catagorization; . Content processing infrastructure . Content crawl and extraction, machine learning; . Distributed and cloud computing; . Ecommerce; . Business development, partner management

• Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis paper accepted by internationally known data conference KDD’18 (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) 07/04/2018 • Co-authored a book “Microsoft 360”; published on 11/07/2008 • Co-authored a US Patent on content extraction for Local Search • Authored three nuclear engineering papers in renowned Chinese national journals

• NGO org CTEF – Board Member , volunteer, China Tomorrow Education Foundation 2005-present o Initiated and led China Earthquake relief effort, resulted in $100K donation o Streamlined operations, expanded CTEF charter to scholarship program as a elected board member o Co-created advisory board that attracts top reputable industry and community leaders • CHINAIT – Executive committee member of CHINAIT organization 2002-2005