Frank Gu
Founder at Knowledge Stack
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFrank Gu is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, data-driven products and scaling teams from single digits to 35+. Based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, BigQuery and containerization with a discipline for automation, security compliance (ISO27001/SOC II), and operational KPIs that make processes stick. He has led major initiatives from microservice migrations and database refactors with near-zero downtime to building private-cloud enterprise offerings that generated multimillion-dollar ARR. Frank excels at aligning exec strategy with engineering executionâdigitizing legacy operations, integrating generative AI into data layers, and shipping production-ready systems that unlock business value. A University of Toronto ECE graduate, he combines technical depth with a penchant for pragmatic automation and vendor negotiation to reduce costs and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
11reputation
501reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (144)
tunnel10
proxy10
vpn10
docker10
minikube10
google-home9
mesh9
kubernetes-pods9
golang9
rust9
voiceflow9
security9
k8s9
conversations9
linkerd9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
voiceflow/pino-pretty
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
đ˛Basic prettifier for Pino log lines
Contributions:1 review, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year
linesloggerloggingpinoprettifier
voiceflow/telepresence
May 2021 - Nov 2021
Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster
Contributions:26 pushes, 5 branches, 1 tag in 6 months
local-developmentopenshiftk8skubernetescluster
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