Donald Yung
Senior DevOps Engineer at Noetica
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDonald Yung is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in New York with 10 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. He has driven large Kubernetes migrations and CI/CD adoption—at AppNexus he helped move 70+ applications to Kubernetes and introduced Spinnaker for production deployments. His recent roles span site reliability and infrastructure engineering at companies like Pinwheel and Ambassador Labs, and he now focuses on DevOps leadership at Noetica. An active open-source contributor, he improved Kubernetes integration and monitoring in the widely used Emissary-Ingress project by adding resource aliases and enhancing metrics endpoints. Donald combines pragmatic infrastructure automation with a strong sense for developer workflows, regularly turning prototypes into production systems that scale across teams. He holds a Computer Science degree from Harvard and brings both hands-on implementation skills and cross-functional program experience.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Harvard UniversityAdvanced Regents Diploma with Advanced Distinction and Honors, Advanced Regents Diploma with Advanced Distinction and Honors at Newfane Senior High School
Github Skills (16)
env10
kubernetes10
microservices-application10
go10
microservices10
envoyproxy10
api-gateway10
convoy10
kubernetes-pods10
metric10
api-design9
dockers9
yaml9
api9
docker9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Donald primarily worked on enhancing the project's Kubernetes integration and improving metrics reporting. Their contributions included adding Kubernetes aliases for `ReplicaSet`, `PodTemplateSpec`, and `StatefulSet` to the `kates` package, likely for simplified Kubernetes resource management. The user also addressed an issue by updating the metriton endpoint and fixing the host for scout.py. These changes suggest a focus on improving the project's functionality, Kubernetes compatibility, and monitoring capabilities.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
datawire/telepresence
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster
Contributions:58 commits in 10 months
local-developmentopenshiftk8skubernetescluster
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