Alan Luong
Software Engineer at Cape
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Luong is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years' experience building backend and DevOps-oriented systems across startups and large tech companies. He has shipped infrastructure and backend improvements at organizations including Meta, Foursquare, and Aptos Labs, and currently applies that expertise at Cape from Irvine, California. At Aptos he contributed to a high-profile layer-1 blockchain project, improving test infrastructure, telemetry, and reliability through chaos experiment checks, JSON logging, and environment enhancements. Alan’s strengths lie at the intersection of developer tooling, testing infrastructure, and distributed systems reliability, with a track record of pragmatic changes that reduce operational friction. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and combines academic foundations with hands-on production experience. Colleagues would describe him as a detail-oriented engineer who surfaces subtle observability and testing gaps before they become incidents.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English
Github Skills (13)
aptos10
kubernetes10
blockchain10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
telemetry9
rust9
docker8
json8
dockers8
gcp7
smart-contracts7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aptos-labs/aptos-core
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain built to support the widespread use of blockchain through better technology and user experience.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:76 reviews, 142 PRs, 475 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on improving the test infrastructure and backend configuration for the Aptos blockchain. They implemented checks for chaos experiment status, modified the testsuite and forge scripts to accommodate changes, and added a writable volume for genesis.blob. They also improved the logging and telemetry by formatting logs in JSON and adding peer location labels.
blockchain-platformblockchainuser-experienceblockchain-networksmart-contracts
alanluong/space-explorer
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:45 commits in 9 days
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