Evance Kao
Senior Backend Engineer at iHerb, LLC
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolEvance Kao is a Senior Backend Engineer with 7 years of experience who transitioned from a career as a weather forecaster to building resilient, high-throughput backend systems. He has led architecture and tech-lead efforts reworking legacy Node.js monoliths into .NET Core service-oriented systems, and introduced CI/CD, GitLab/Jenkins automation, and AWS-based scaling for production reliability. His work spans microservices, distributed databases, API concatenation with third-party providers, and performance-conscious algorithms (e.g., an O(n log n) promotions engine), plus tooling that accelerated team onboarding and project bootstrapping. Comfortable across C#, JavaScript, MS-SQL and DevOps pipelines, he combines hands-on development with mentoring in Git, Kubernetes, and cloud practices. A pragmatic problem-solver, he brings systems thinking from his forecasting background to anticipate failure modes and design high-availability solutions.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Earth Science Teacher Education, Bachelor's degree, Earth Science Teacher Education at National Taiwan Normal University
Github Skills (14)
armv610
sonic10
switch10
cli10
ansible10
binary-image9
redis-database9
configuration-management9
redis7
database7
unit-test5
snmpd5
state-management4
testing4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chaoskao/sonic-mgmt
May 2020 - Aug 2024
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Contributions:9 pushes, 19 branches in 4 years 4 months
configuration-managementansibleconfigurationsonic
chaoskao/sonic-sairedis
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
SAI object interface to Redis database, as used in the SONiC project
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
redissaidatabasesonicredis-database
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