Foo L
Principal Software Engineer at FLJG LLC
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolFoo L is a Principal Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11+ years building high-throughput, scalable systems and data pipelines across startups and mature products. He specializes in Python (FastAPI, Flask), Kubernetes/EKS, AWS, and data stores (Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) and has repeatedly migrated monoliths to microservices while improving operational efficiency and automation. Notable work includes architecting a Cassandra/Spark reporting solution for 1.4B events/day, designing resilient Kafka-based ingestion at scale, and leading migrations from Rails to Python/FastAPI with Terraform-driven infrastructure as code. He pairs deep backend and DevOps chops with hands-on leadership—managing offshore teams, introducing Docker/Kubernetes, and shipping analytics and self-serve BI for business stakeholders. Outside the obvious stack, Foo’s background in lower-level languages and early systems work (C/C++, Perl, Solaris/Apache ops) gives him a pragmatic systems perspective that informs robust, performance-minded designs.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Chinese
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Github Skills (143)
python10
swagger10
etl10
automation10
scrapy10
mlops10
crawler10
rest-api10
orchestration10
openapi10
apache-airflow10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
swagger-ui10
api10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jimmytuc/algo-py
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
jimmytuc/infra-boilerplate
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:18 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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