Cwen Yin
Cloud Infra Engineer at PingCAP
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolCwen Yin is a Cloud Infra Engineer with nine years of experience building and hardening cloud-native and distributed systems, currently based in Beijing and working at PingCAP. He has led chaos engineering efforts and contributed core controllers and CRDs to Chaos Mesh while improving TiDB operator stability and fault-injection support for robust e2e testing. His open-source work includes porting and adapting Jepsen tests for TiDB, demonstrating deep practical knowledge of distributed-consistency verification and test infrastructure. Comfortable across backend development, DevOps and Kubernetes, he focuses on making complex distributed systems observable, testable, and resilient in production. Colleagues note his blend of hands-on debugging and systems-level design—coding as art applied to real-world failure scenarios.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shenyang University of Technology
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Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
controller10
clojure-cli10
testing10
tidb10
test-framework10
clojure10
crt10
fault-injection10
go10
sql10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
database-management9
database-api9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 929 reviews, 278 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Cwen primarily contributed to defining and implementing the Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for pod chaos and initialized the controller manager. They worked on externalversions and created deepcopy functions for the project's API objects. The user appears to be implementing the core logic for the chaos experiments by adding a controller for PodChaos, including functionalities like event handling and syncing.
chaossite-reliability-engineeringoperatorchaos-experimentsengineering
pingcap/tidb-operator
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
TiDB operator creates and manages TiDB clusters running in Kubernetes.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 18 PRs, 4 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Cwen contributed to improving the stability and functionality of the TiDB operator. Their work included increasing HTTP client timeouts for syncing PD status and integrating fault-trigger mechanisms for e2e tests, enhancing the testing infrastructure. Furthermore, the user added support for fault injection including stopping/starting services and more, indicative of expertise in Kubernetes and system management. They also added a blockWriter case for inserting data, suggesting a focus on database interaction and performance testing.
golangtidbclustersoperatorkubernetes
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