Lu Ki (Qi Lu)

Lu Ki (Qi Lu)

Ki Lu is the Chinese software engineer participating in development of several key products of Microsoft among which — the search system Bing, Skype service and the Microsoft Office software package.

1996-2008: Career in IBM and Yahoo

From 1996 to 1998 Ki Lu worked in one of research laboratories IBM. Then he joined Yahoo and worked to the middle of 2008 there. Before leaving Ki Lu's Yahoo directed 3 thousand engineers and headed development of technologies for search systems and contextual advertizing.

2016: Leaving Microsoft

At the end of September, 2016 it became known of Ki Lu's leaving Microsoft for health reasons. He worked in the American company about eight years — since 2008.

According to the Re/code edition with reference to own sources, Ki Lu was forced to leave Microsoft because of effects of accident in which the top manager had time of driving the bicycle several months prior to resignation. Details of the event and degree traumatized are unknown.

Many duties of Ki Lu (before leaving Microsoft he held a post of the executive vice president for applications and services) are transferred to Rajesh Jha, the corporate vice president of the company heading projects Microsoft Outlook and Office 365.

Ki Lu left the company after accident by bicycle

Microsoft confirmed that Ki Lu leaves for health reasons, and added that he can return to the company, having become the advisor to director general of Microsoft of Satya Nadella and the cofounder Bill Gates.

Re/code notes that Ki Lu is considered one of Nadella's favourites. Under the leadership of Lu Office turned from the set of applications only for personal computers into a complex of products of the programs available also for mobile devices on platforms iOS and Android.

We want that Office was a habit — Ki Lu in one of the interviews said.[1]

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