Yang Lei

Software Engineer

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States21 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Cloud Architecture and Big Data Analytics.
Awarded IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.
Passionate about building high-performance teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Big Data expert with a focus on SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud-native ArchitectureInfrastructure As ServiceCloud ArchitectureBig Data Analytics

Other Skills

AWSAzureGCPKubernetesMachine LearningData Center OSInternet of ThingsContinuous Integration/DeploymentDevOpsTensorFlowSpark SQLKafkaJenkinsDockerProject Management

About

Yang Lei has a wealth of experience in the IT industry spanning several major IT companies on diverse technologies. She has taken various Software Engineering, Architect and Leadership roles through her career. The three things most important things that keep Yang focused: * Deliver solutions that solve real problems and improve life. * Innovate to make things simple, efficient, effective. * Building team and community to empower individuals, grow together and tackle bigger problems.

Experience

21 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

10 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Dec 2024 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area · Remote

Drive both Private and Public network secure accessibility for Confluent Cloud across AWS, Azure, GCP. Converge network routing solution into one framework through DNS resolution and service discovery across multi-cloud Kubernetes. Support distributed metadata management through cloud storage and Change Data Capture
Drive Confluent Cloud SaaS across clouds, AWS, Azure, GCP. Manage multi-service lifecycle through unified deployment / feedback framework with Scalability, Resiliency, Operation Insights. Drive multiple system automations and release verifications.

infrastructure as serviceCloud-Native ArchitectureInfrastructure as Service

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3 roles

Senior Software Engineer & Cloud Architect

Promoted

Jan 2015 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos · IBM Cloud CTO Office

Thanks IBM for giving Yang the opportunities to fulfill her passion in innovation, delivering solutions and building communities.
Yang's main passion is innovation, which she has the opportunity to pursue at her current role as Senior Cloud Architect in the Strategic Client Success Team in the IBM Cloud CTO office. She drives projects around Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Data Center OS, Internet of Things, etc. She holds multiple patents. In recognition of her achievements, she was awarded an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2015.
Besides technical achievements, Yang has a passion in giving back to the community and sharing experiences in building and growing high-performance teams. She has been invited to speak at different universities such as Duke University, TaiYuan University of Technology in China on Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics... She is also working as an advisor for university collaboration projects at NC State University and was on the panel of judges for their entrepreneurial contest.
Cloud Innovation details :
Data Center OS( Mesos, Fenzo, Kubernetes, IBM Specturm ISF, Slurm...);
Big Data Analytics (Spark SQL, Kafka, Swift, Zeppelin, Jupyter...);
Machine Learning ( TensorFlow, Spark ML, ...)
Continuous Integration/Deployment, DevOps( Jenkins, Docker, Terraform...);
Real time streaming process (Spark, Flink, Google Dataflow, Apache Apex, Apache Edgent...)
Scalable Data Store (Cassandra, Riak, ScyllaDB...);
Micro Services ( ZipKin, Swagger, Kong);
Smart Contract (HyperLedger);
Operation Insights (ELK stack...);
Event Driven Scheduling (Chronos...);
Open Stack Swift and Softlayer Object Storage;

Machine LearningBig Data AnalyticsData Center OSInternet of ThingsContinuous Integration/DeploymentDevOps+1

Senior Software Engineer for Web Scale and Workload Optimization

Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs · Emerging Technology Institute

Cross-brand collaboration with SWG, STG, AIM, IM, Research. Led performance, scalability, capacity evaluation of Bluemix. Designed and developed Web Scale benchmark solution with leading edge technology (Scala, Cassandra, NodeJS). Continuous Integration and Application Orchestration with Docker (ServiceRegistry, LoadBalancer, Mesos)

Sr. Software Engineer / Team Lead / Release Architect for SCA Feature Pack

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs · WebSphere Application Server Development

Successfully led geographically distributed team to deliver 2 major releases of WAS SCA Feature Pack using Agile methodology; member of Technical Committee on OASIS SCA; actively grew team members both technically and professionally to achieve business goal.

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Software Engineer and Lead Architect

Jan 2000 – Jan 2006 · 6 yrs · EJB CMP 2.x Persistence for WebSphere Application Server

Designed and developed EJB CMP 2.x Persistence. Designed and developed Unified Persistence Framework for various Java Object Persistence including Service Data Object. Holding various patents in the Object Persistence and Object Caching area.