Evans Ye
Software Engineer at Meta
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolEvans Ye is a software engineer and engineering leader with a decade of hands-on experience building large-scale big data platforms, OLAP engines, and real-time recommendation systems. He has led teams of up to seven engineers to deliver eCommerce recommendations serving millions of users and ML-driven user segments for advertising, and drove a 20% cost reduction on an auto-indexing OLAP proof-of-concept at Alibaba. A long-time Apache committer and PMC member, Evans contributed containerization features to Apache Bigtop that improved CI/CD and release velocity, and has notable backend work in Apache SkyWalking and Alibaba’s loongcollector improving storage efficiency and observability pipelines. At Trend Micro he architected an in-house Hadoop distribution and a stream-processing/ HBase search stack that cut query times by over 97%, enabling faster security incident triage. Now based in Vancouver and currently at Meta, he blends production-grade systems thinking with open-source stewardship, often focusing on storage/index tuning and CI/CD automation that quietly multiply team productivity.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Management, 4.0, Master's degree, Information Management, 4.0 at National Cheng Kung UniversityBachelor's degree, Information Management, 3.1, Bachelor's degree, Information Management, 3.1 at Tamkang University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (32)
observability10
amazon-elasticsearch10
distributed-tracing10
storage10
java10
apm10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
logging10
elasticsearch-api10
dockers9
cicd9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alibaba/loongcollector
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Fast and Lightweight Observability Data Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 94 reviews, 81 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Evans primarily focused on integrating and configuring the `alibaba/loongcollector` project, which is an observability data collector. Their contributions include initializing and integrating iLogtail, a lightweight log collection agent. They also addressed build and test issues and improved the CI/CD processes, indicating involvement in DevOps aspects. Furthermore, the user made code changes related to system metrics and container metadata.
aliyunapmdata-observabilityebpfobservability
apache/skywalking
May 2020 - Apr 2021
APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:109 reviews, 25 commits, 31 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Evans primarily contributed to the Apache SkyWalking project by implementing enhancements to the ElasticSearch storage components. This included adding a `SuperDataset` tag for managing large datasets in ElasticSearch, modifying index settings and rolling configurations, and improving trace query performance. The user also addressed index-related issues related to time series data management for super datasets. These changes indicate a focus on improving storage efficiency and query performance within the APM system.
skywalkingloggingobservabilitytelegrafprometheus
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