# Ji Wang

> Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure

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

Now, I am working in Azure SQL DB team. 
Prior to joining Microsoft, I worked as a Software Engineer at Rubrik since 2017. At Rubrik, I focused on Rubrik Event, Alert, and Monitoring Platform and owned the Rubrik Event and Notification Framework.

Previous Ph.D. research in Computer Science:
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QfRik3EAAAAJ&hl=en
- Visual analytics on text data and deep learning models
- Human-Computer Interaction

Professional Skills:
-  Programming: Scala, Python, JavaScript, Java.
-  JavaScript Visualization & Interaction Design: D3.js, Leaflet.js.  
-  Text Mining: Gensim, Stanford CoreNLP, NLTK, Topic Modeling, Sentiment Analysis.
-  Data Mining / Machine Learning: scikit-learn, MLlib, Weka, NumPy, SciPy, word2vec, Deep Learning (PyTorch).
-  Data Wrangling & Management: Spark, DataFrame(Spark, Pandas), MySQL, CockroachDB.
-  Web Development: Node.js, Express.js, AngularJS, MongoDB.
-  Research: Text Mining, Text Visual Analytics, Social Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Study, A/B Testing.

Outside work, I enjoy traveling, reading, and symphony. I traveled over 20 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia. I believe traveling is the chance to step out, explore, and experience elsewhere gives me perspective.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Azure SQL Database: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database/
- Azure SQL Control and Data Plane Infra team

### Software Engineer @ Rubrik, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Working on Rubrik Event, Alert, and Monitoring Platform:
Component owner of the Rubrik Event Framework team.

1. Created and delivered Rubrik's brand new Event Framework with 20X perf speed-up. [CockroachDB, Scala]
   -    Collect, process, and persist over 3M+ status updates per day from various running jobs/tasks across Rubrik’s clusters and data centers.
   -    Provide high availability and low latency API service with multiple filters to downstream data pipelines, like Splunk, Rubrik Web UI, etc.
   -    Boosted API service with 20X performance speed-up.

2. Created and delivered Rubrik Error Code Framework.[Scala, TypeScript]

3. Created and delivered Rubrik's Email Notification Framework. [Scala, TypeScript, Python, Cassandra]

### Research Intern @ Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Worked on Question and Answering analytics and mixed-initiative tools for customer care (with Dr. Gregorio Convertino). [Python, D3,js]
 - Developed and delivered Large volume public transportation data visualization and interaction design in Xerox CityDashboard Project (with Frederic Roulland). [D3.js, Leaflet.js]
 -  Published a research paper in CHI 2014.

### Visiting Researcher @ PARC
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Design a new fisheye-style word cloud + stream graph visualization by Javascript for sentiment visual analysis about time-series twitter data. [D3.js, Java]
 - Text data visualization for business intelligence research. [D3.js, Python]
 - Published a research paper in CHI 2013

### Research Intern @ PARC
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Designed and delivered a new fisheye-style word cloud + stream graph visualization by Javascript for sentiment visual analysis about time-series twitter data. [D3.js, Java]
 - Text data visualization for business intelligence research. [D3.js, Python]

### Research Intern @ Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Participated to design the User Interface for the Multimodal Interaction (MMI) Navigation System.
 - Developed and delivered the user interface of a Multimodal Navigation System on Linux by C++ and Qt, which includes the map manipulation, the Points of Interests (POI) search and the route planning. [C++, Qt]


## Education
### PhD Candidate in Computer Science, Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### M.Sc. Computer Science in Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012

### B.Sc.Computer Science in Computer Science
Jilin University
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wangji
- Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QfRik3EAAAAJ&hl=en

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Last updated: 2026-03-22