# Fanglu Guo

> Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/fanglu

A Principal Software Engineer in Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service.

Leadership:
* Develop new ideas into products.
* Scale engineering teams.

Highlight:
* Initiated and launched 4 products in Google with 400+ customers.
* Developed patents that enabled Symantec deduplication products to increase revenue from $200 million to $430 million.
* 40+ granted patents in the fields of storage and security.
* 2 Best Paper Awards out of 18 referred academic papers.

Technical specialties:
* Build and run large scale distributed services with million queries per second.
* Security, Privacy, and Compliance: Cloud infrastructure security, access control, data retention for GDPR, malware infiltration prevention and detection, OS level virtualization, DNS DoS protection, buffer overflow detection, and digital certificate analytics.
* Storage: scalable and high speed data storage, data deduplication, and crash resistant data change tracking.
* Networking: multi-homing load balancing, application aware traffic classification and control, traffic Quality of Service (QoS), and high speed packet processing.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Tech Lead Manager @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
I am a Tech Lead Manager managing a 26-member engineering team. In 4 years, I initiated 3 products and scaled the team from 3 to the current size. I hired most of the engineers, promoted 2 L5 engineers to L6, and grew a L4 engineer to L6 capacity. Under my coaching, one of my L6s also initiated and launched a product. The products landed 400+ teams across Google and 20+ external companies such as big banks and medical companies who deal with sensitive information.

Prior to this, I was a Tech Lead Manager managing a 9-member engineering team responsible for Google Cloud IAM’s performance, scalability, and reliability. In 2.5 years, my team scaled the service from 100 K QPS to 1 million QPS.

### Technical Director @ Symantec Research Labs
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015
•	Initiate project ideas
•	Pitch to the executives and engineering leaders
•	Research solutions
•	Develop prototypes to make a working system
•	Transfer the technologies to products/Implement the technology in the products

### Sr Principal Software Engineer @ Symantec Research Labs
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011

### Principal Software Engineer @ Symantec Research Labs
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009

### Senior Software Engineer @ Huawei
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001


## Education
### PhD in CS
Stony Brook University

### M.E. in EE
Chinese Academy of Sciences

### B.E. in EE
Xi'an Jiaotong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fanglu-guo-638b481

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Last updated: 2026-04-12