Anthony Yeh
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Yeh is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and distributed databases, now based in Plano, Texas. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes and Vitess from roles at Google, YouTube, PlanetScale, and Chronosphere, and currently leads engineering efforts at Palo Alto Networks after Chronosphere’s acquisition. Anthony combines hands-on backend and DevOps skills—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Kubernetes release tooling and Vitess—with a history of improving MySQL replication and release automation for large-scale systems. He’s been a startup CTO and early employee at Signadot, demonstrating product-minded engineering and the ability to ship under ambiguity. Notably, his open-source contributions include speeding Kubernetes release job fetches and implementing lambda-style controllers, reflecting a focus on practical performance and operability gains. Trained in electrical engineering at UT Austin and UC Berkeley, he brings both research rigor and production experience to complex infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Student Researcher Electrical Engineering, Graduate Student Researcher Electrical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (41)
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
mysql10
scripting10
high-availability10
databases10
bash10
cicd10
api-documentation10
automation10
client-go10
script10
infrastructure10
go10
jsonnet10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/metacontroller
Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
Lightweight Kubernetes controllers as a service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 229 commits, 106 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Anthony implemented a lambda controller and related hooks to manage Kubernetes resources, demonstrating knowledge of Kubernetes controllers. They added examples of blue-green deployments and other controller patterns. They also worked on examples and configurations for the catset and indexed job controllers and made changes to support the use of jsonnet in the project. The user appears to be well-versed in the project's code base and functionality.
as-a-servicekubernetes-controllerskubernetescontrollers
vitessio/vitess
May 2014 - Apr 2021
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 27 reviews, 1391 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on bug fixes within the Vitess codebase, specifically targeting issues in the bsongen_test function, the Guestbook application's backend, and commands like `vtctl`, `vttablet`, and `mysqlctl`. The user's contributions include refactoring existing code, improving error handling, and making the codebase compatible with newer gRPC and MySQL versions. They also made code improvements to facilitate the transition from the old to the new Vitess codebase.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
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