Frank Li
B̶r̶i̶s̶b̶a̶n̶e̶ Sydney, China
Summary
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RockstarFrank Li is a seasoned Unix/Linux and DevOps engineer with over two decades of systems experience and a recent focus on SRE and GPU infrastructure at xAI. He has led reliability and automation efforts across companies like NVIDIA, Palo Alto Networks, and Intuit, spanning Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, SaltStack, Chef/Ansible, and large-scale production clusters. Frank contributes to open-source projects such as Hyperledger Besu, improving Ethereum client stability and security with work on websockets, IPv6/firewall handling, and JWT multi-algorithm support. Known for pragmatic automation, he aims to automate everything he can — and pragmatically admits he’d like to be on the beach while the scripts run. Based in West San Jose, he combines deep low-level Unix operational expertise with modern CI/CD and cloud-native practices, making him a reliable bridge between legacy datacenter systems and cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
javas10
ethereum10
blockchain10
java10
jwt9
websocket9
json-rpc9
api8
testing8
apidoc8
p2p7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
besu-eth/besu
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
An enterprise-grade Java-based, Apache 2.0 licensed Ethereum client https://github.com/besu-eth/besu/wiki
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 141 reviews, 24 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Frank contributed to the Besu project, focusing on improving the Ethereum client's functionality and robustness. Their work included implementing support for websocket binary frames, handling exceptions related to IPv6 configuration and firewall rules, and refactoring internal code. They also added multi-algorithm support for JWT, and added test for the same. The user's contributions indicate a focus on improving the stability, security, and feature set of the Besu client.
ethereumjavabesublockchainp2p
frankisawesome/trendsandgas
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
plot eth gas price against key network metrics to gain insight into gas price trends
Contributions:40 commits, 6 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 months
network-metricsplottrendsgasgain
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