Felix Huang
Senior Software Engineer at Google
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolFelix Huang is a Senior Software Engineer in New Jersey with a PhD in Computer Science and over a decade of research and development experience in cloud computing, including four years focused on Kubernetes, CI/CD, and 5G RAN architecture. He has held engineering roles at Google and AWS and served as a Principal Inventive Scientist at AT&T, bridging deep research with production-grade systems. An active open-source contributor to Linux Foundation projects, Felix has made substantive back-end and DevOps improvements to high-profile repos like Karpenter—implementing metrics controllers, refining provisioning and scheduling logic, and hardening autoscaling behavior. He blends academic rigor with practical tooling expertise, routinely translating complex distributed systems problems into observable, reliable infrastructure.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (9)
scheduling10
kubernetes10
provisioning10
go10
metric10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
terraformer8
terraform8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aws/karpenter-provider-aws
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:221 reviews, 27 commits, 41 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Felix contributed to refactoring logging and metrics, adding context injection for resource names. They fixed an insufficient memory instance type bug by adding pod number checks. The user implemented pod and node metrics controllers, including labels and dashboards, and also refactored provisioning requirements and scheduling logics. They also added a label domain exception, doubled the instance retry, and improved error message readability.
autoscalingperformancek8skubernetesnodejs
felix-zhe-huang/karpenter
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Kubernetes Node Autoscaling: built for flexibility, performance, and scalability. https://karpenter.sh
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 141 pushes in 7 months
karpenterautoscalingperformancekubernetesnodejs
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