Eric Yan
Senior Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolEric Yan is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in database infrastructure and site reliability with over 12 years of experience, currently scaling and managing some of the largest MySQL deployments at GitHub. He combines strong systems engineering with infrastructure automation expertise, writing production-grade tooling in Go, Python, and Ruby. Based in Amsterdam, he focuses on reliability, performance, and operability for large-scale database fleets. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation that reduces toil and improves uptime across complex distributed systems. His career blends a liberal arts education with deep technical curiosity—his GitHub bio, "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious," reflects a continual drive to learn and iterate on infrastructure challenges.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences (Liberal Learning Program), Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences (Liberal Learning Program) at Sun Yat-Sen University
English, Chinese, Dutch
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Github Skills (84)
coredns10
cert10
database-access10
mysql10
mariadb10
schema-migrations10
migration10
plugin10
migration-tool10
letsencrypt9
acme9
service-discovery9
encrypt9
exporter9
security9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ericyan/tdx
Dec 2013 - Jul 2021
A library for parsing TDX market data
Contributions:1 review, 36 commits, 3 PRs in 7 years 8 months
market-datamarkettdxparsing
ericyan/i3de
Jan 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:95 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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