Yu YI

Engineering Manager

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada9 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led GKE Observability initiatives at Google.
Key contributor to world's largest Oracle to Cloud migration.
Built scalable architectures for multiple startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Software Engineering expert with extensive experience in scalable architectures.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesObservabilitySaasServerlessCloud BuildBazelCloud MigrationSoftware EngineeringSoftware ArchitectureCloud ServicesCloud ArchitectureWeb Development

Other Skills

Google Cloud PlatformMultitenancySecurityGCPRemote Build ExecutionOracleFinancial LedgerPythonDjangoAWSServer Platform DesignPHPAJAXRedisHTML

About

Engineering Manager at Google, leading GKE Observability and collaborating on Observability initiatives across Google Cloud. Expert in Kubernetes and Observability. Before joining Google, I worked for Amazon Canada and delivered the world's biggest Oracle→Cloud migration as a key contributor. Even before I was in Singapore, and I worked for three start-ups: Chumby (open-source hardware), Mozat (mobile chat platform) and Brandsfever (CTO of e-commerce websites in 20+ countries). Manager by Day, Hacker by Night. Optimist Forever.

Experience

9 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

9 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Google

3 roles

Engineering Manager / Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) - Observability
I lead GKE Observability, and I serve as the GKE point-of-contact to collaborate in the Observability space across GCP.

KubernetesObservabilityGoogle Cloud Platform

Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) - SaaS, Serverless, Multitenancy, Security
Workload sandboxing (e.g. GKE Sandbox) and Performance;
Fast autoscaling for serverless workloads
Multitenancy for SaaS work.

SaaSServerlessMultitenancySecurity

Software Engineer

Dec 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

Cloud Build - Bazel Remote Build Execution for GCP
Related open-source projects:
bazel: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel
bazel-toolchain: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-toolchains
rules_docker: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker
rules_k8s: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_k8s

BazelGCPRemote Build ExecutionCloud Build

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Nov 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Vancouver, Canada Area

Software Engineer in Financial Ledger team, built and launched v2 service which was recognized as the biggest Oracle to Cloud service+database migration in Amazon (and potentially the world).

OracleCloud MigrationFinancial LedgerSoftware Engineering

Mozat pte ltd

2 roles

Software Architect Consultant

Promoted

May 2014 – Nov 2014 · 6 mos · Singapore

I worked in the server team as a consultant for 6 months contract, during the period I mainly worked on:
Investigate the connectivity issues with ZooKeeper, for Mozat's distributed service framework;
Re-implement the photo store service, MoPhoto, to store/serve all static files such as pictures to AWS S3. Those static files were stored in NAS and were unscalable;
Story service, which is Mozat's twitter-like microblog service;
Worked on a RPC framework, which uses Netty/Protocol Buffer to achieve high performance.

PythonDjangoAWSSoftware ArchitectureCloud Services

Software Engineer

Dec 2011 – Nov 2012 · 11 mos · Singapore

In the core service R&D team, responsible for:
1. Design and implementation of scalable, reliable and high performance server platform based on a variety of technologies
2. Optimisation and improvement of existing services

PythonServer Platform DesignSoftware Engineering

Brandsfever pte ltd

Chief Technology Officer

Nov 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Singapore

I was responsible for the engineering team of Brandsfever in the following aspects:
1. Team Building: Build a strong Python/Django team.
2. Architecture: Construct and optimise Brandsfever's AWS based technical stack, make it scalable automatically.
3. Agile Development: Rapid response to the business needs.

AWSPythonDjangoSoftware EngineeringCloud Architecture

Carbonstory

Volunteer Software Engineer

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos · Singapore

As a volunteer software engineer to support CarbonStory as an early stage start-up, I developed the carbon footprint calculator (https://www.carbonstory.org/calculator) using PHP, AJAX and Redis.

PHPAJAXRedisWeb Development

Chumby industries

Software Engineer

Jul 2011 – Dec 2011 · 5 mos · Singapore

1. Python: Maintaining, upgrading and extending the existing testing automation framework Jenkins, writing new test cases in Python.
2. HTML/JavaScript: Developing Web-Apps, e.g. Facebook app and Groupon app, using HTML/JavaScript for NeTV.
3. iPhone Development: Developing an iPhone client, as a remote controller for NeTV

PythonHTMLJavaScriptSoftware Engineering