Dafu A
Software Engineer at Rippling
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDafu A is a software engineer based in New York with a decade of experience and a 6+ year focus on backend development, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure. He has driven reliability, observability, and performance work across platforms at companies including Canva, Atlassian (Jira Cloud performance), and TikTok, and now works at Rippling building scalable systems. His strengths include platform engineering, real-time analytics, and large-scale data migrations, with a practical bent for low-latency, high-throughput designs and load-testing toolchains. Having an MEng and BS from the University of Melbourne, he pairs formal software engineering training with hands-on production experience across both startup and enterprise environments. Notably, he has moved between performance-critical roles and product-facing platforms, giving him a rare perspective on both core system libraries and developer-facing tooling.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Mercedes CollegeThe University of Melbourne
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (62)
sarif9
testing9
aws9
firefox8
api8
serverless-framework8
infrastructure8
aws-lambda8
terraform8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
nodejs7
portal7
chromium7
azure-functions7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jayai2014/flightstats
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 19 days
testingtest-repository
jayai2014/twu-biblioteca-dafu-ai
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 15 days
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