Alvin Huang
Engineering Manager, Release Engineering at Temporal Technologies
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAlvin Huang is an engineering manager with 10+ years building scalable CI/CD and cloud automation platforms, most recently leading Release Engineering at HashiCorp and now at Temporal Technologies. He specializes in Terraform-driven infrastructure-as-code, Vault, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Go/Python automation to create secure, auditable, and reproducible release pipelines used by hundreds of engineers across dozens of products. Alvin combines hands-on contributions to prominent open-source projects like Terraform, Consul, Nomad and go-discover with team leadership, improving build systems, multi-cloud provider integrations, and site deployment tooling. He’s passionate about developer velocity, observability, and compliance, and is known for turning brittle release processes into reliable, testable automation at scale. A former security and SQA infrastructure engineer, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and auditability that informs both platform design and organizational practices.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Engineering, B.S Computer Engineering at University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of EngineeringHS & IB Diploma, HS & IB Diploma at Richard Montgomery High School
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (41)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
docker10
fastly10
netlify10
testing10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
web-deploy10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
consul10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/go-discover
May 2018 - Dec 2021
Discover nodes in cloud environments
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 45 commits, 47 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alvin contributed to the testing and provider implementations within the go-discover project. They focused on improving the robustness of cloud provider tests, specifically for Alibaba Cloud, Azure, and Triton. Additionally, they added support for AWS SessionToken and corrected VMSS names and resource group configurations. The user's commits demonstrate expertise in integrating and testing infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms.
discovergcpnodescloudkubernetes
hashicorp/consul
Feb 2018 - Nov 2021
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 76 reviews, 261 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alvin contributed to both the frontend and backend of the Consul project. Their work involved updating the UI, including enabling Ember-exam for testing, as well as fixing documentation and build processes. The user also made significant contributions to the backend by adding checks and tests to the API and agent components and fixing build errors.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
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