Dick Tang
DevOps Engineer at hk01.com
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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RockstarDick Tang is a DevOps Engineer and SRE with 13 years of experience building reliable, secure infrastructure across Hong Kong’s fast-moving tech scene. Currently focused on DevOps/SRE and big data at HK01 and formerly part of 9GAG’s SRE team, he blends production reliability with pragmatic automation. He contributes to notable open-source security tooling—enhancing sops to support richer encryption context and finer-grained KMS access control—demonstrating hands-on expertise in secrets management. Comfortable across cloud, CI/CD, and observability stacks, he brings a security-first mindset to platform engineering. Known for improving operational security in real-world, high-traffic environments, he pairs deep troubleshooting skills with a preference for simple, auditable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
secret-management10
google-cloud-kms10
aws10
encryption10
security10
python9
devops8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
getsops/sops
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Dick focused on enhancing the security of the `sops` tool by implementing encryption context features. They introduced functionality to read encryption context from arguments, updated the code to use a comma-separated list for key-value pairs, and modified the test cases and documentation to reflect the new capabilities. This work allows for more fine-grained access control when using KMS.
golanggcpdevopssecret-managementsecurity
dictcp/awesome-git
Sep 2015 - May 2022
A curated list of amazingly awesome Git tools, resources and shiny things
Contributions:1 review, 73 commits, 64 PRs in 6 years 9 months
version-controlweb-appgit-toolsshinygit-addons
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