Caitlyn Yu
Software Engineer L3 at Gusto
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaitlyn Yu is an infrastructure-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building platform reliability, IaC, and developer experience tooling across organizations including Twitter, VMware/Tanzu, Pivotal, and Aspera. She’s driven production-grade Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD automation, and observability work—spearheading org-wide documentation and onboarding programs at Twitter and automating cluster bootstrapping and on-call improvements. Caitlyn holds Google Cloud certifications in Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional DevOps, and Cloud Security, and she brings hands-on expertise porting Cloud Foundry functionality to Kubernetes and shipping metrics/egress pipelines. At Gusto she’s extending that foundation into reliability report cards, Backstage integrations, and responsible AI experiments to improve engineering workflows. Her open-source contributions include backend work on the well-known cloudfoundry/uaa project, showing a depth in auth and API-level fixes. Fluent in cross-cultural collaboration (training and language study in China) and experienced mentoring engineers, she pairs technical craft with knowledge-sharing to scale teams effectively.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of GeorgiaCertificate, Chinese Language, Certificate, Chinese Language at Renmin University of ChinaCertificate, Chinese Language and Culture, Certificate, Chinese Language and Culture at Beijing Language and Culture University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
javas10
api10
apidoc10
oauth10
java10
spring-boot10
openid-connect10
json9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/uaa
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:152 releases, 717 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Caitlyn's commits focused on implementing features and resolving issues related to the CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server, specifically within the context of the `uaa` repository. The commits show changes to the UAA server-side Java code, implementing features like group descriptions with commas, default group descriptions, and fixes for a token revocation related bug. These contributions indicate work directly on the backend service functionality and API.
openid-connectuaaoidcaccountauthentication
cloudfoundry/uaa-singular
Jan 2018 - Oct 2022
Singular Login for Web Applications
Contributions:16 releases, 26 commits, 3 tags in 4 years 9 months
javascriptsingularweb-applicationsangular
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