LAN YAO
Mountain View,CA
Summary
Results-oriented and innovative Senior Software Engineer with 4 years of experience. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Confluent, Inc.
01.2024 - Current
- Led PoC evaluation and implementation of Renovatebot, addressing CVE patching and dependency updates across projects. This initiative paved the way for improved project maintainability and security posture
- Integrated security best practices within CI/CD, ensuring code and infrastructure vulnerabilities were addressed during build and deployment stages
- Optimized the workflow for AMI build and promotions, significantly reducing manual overhead for maintenance and operation
- Led the effort to deprecate outdated operating system versions of CI agents and migrated agents to newer, more secure versions (Ubuntu 24.04), improving pipeline stability and ensuring compatibility with dependencies
- Migrated our monitoring and alerting system from Datadog to AMP and Grafana, reducing cost by 40%
Software Engineer
Confluent, Inc.
08.2022 - 01.2024
- Led initiatives for the migration of key Python and Java repositories to Bazel, highlighting a notable reduction in build/test times and enhancing developer efficiency
- Innovated the cumulative development of "confluent-bazel-rules" and other automated tooling for significant productivity gains
- Contribute to open-source bazel rules to enhance the functionality and improve community access to bazel tooling
- Proactively explore new investment areas and initiated a project to optimize Kafka's dependency graph for its Bazel build utilizing GPT-4 LLM and LangChain
- Implemented automation for parallel patch releases, slashing total release hours from 8 to 1 and significantly boosting release operation productivity
- Designed automation solution for FOSSA and crafted Jenkins job to reduce manual overhead
Software Engineer
WePay, Inc.
05.2021 - 08.2022
- Designed and implemented an internal service from scratch, simplifying the operation process for internal dataset access control and automating view creations
- Assisted in building and maintaining ETL workflows to collect, process, and store data in BigQuery and AWS S3
- Collaborated with data scientists to deploy machine learning models into the data infrastructure pipeline, improving the deployment process and enabling real-time predictions
Software Engineer Intern
WePay, Inc.
05.2020 - 08.2020
- Developed an internal backend service in GCP, integrating into CI/CD pipeline to launch vulnerability scan before production release.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GABachelor of Science - Engineering
Xiamen University
XiamenSkills
- Jenkins
- Semaphore CI
- Make
- Bazel
- Maven
- Gradle
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Atlantis
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Java
- Python
- Bash
- Groovy
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Confluent, Inc.
01.2024 - Current
Software Engineer
Confluent, Inc.
08.2022 - 01.2024
Software Engineer
WePay, Inc.
05.2021 - 08.2022
Software Engineer Intern
WePay, Inc.
05.2020 - 08.2020
Master of Science - Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - Engineering
Xiamen University
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