Cooper Wu is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer based in Shanghai with a decade of experience building and operating secure, automated Windows and network environments for financial services. He leads user support and service management, routinely handling VIP L1/L2 incidents, disaster recovery planning, and InfoSec controls while driving operational automation to improve reliability. Cooper has a strong track record in vendor and procurement management, budgeting, and aligning IT projects with regional and global business objectives. Prior roles at Wellington, Fidelity, and Commerzbank show his ability to blend hands-on technical work with business-facing analysis and data pipeline improvements. An active contributor to the popular Apache APISIX project, he has fixed authentication bugs and added Kubernetes discovery tooling, reflecting both backend and DevOps strengths. Quick to learn complex environments and skilled at cross-functional collaboration, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and clear communication to high-stakes infrastructure programs.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications Engineering at 上海师范大学
Contributions:21 reviews, 9 PRs, 179 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Cooper primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature additions within the APISIX API Gateway. Their work involved resolving issues related to authentication, including detailed error messages, and addressing a restart failure in the system's command-line interface. They also added a new feature to dump Kubernetes discovery data. This suggests involvement in both core back-end logic and operational aspects.
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