Gary Meng
Senior Backend Engineer at G42
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top expert inPHP-Based Web Development and Microservices Frameworks
Gary Meng is a Senior Backend Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, high-throughput systems and leading teams across cloud-native, AI, and DevOps domains. Based in Queensland, Australia, he has driven production deployments at G42—integrating AI agents, an Arabic LLM, and async AI pipelines with Kafka—while cutting DevOps effort through automated Docker and Kubernetes CI/CD on Azure/AWS. His background spans refactoring monoliths into microservices with Spring Boot, GraphQL, gRPC and PostgreSQL, to performance engineering at scale using Redis, Bloom filters, and observability tooling. An early contributor to Docker-based LNMP tooling, he combines hands-on ops skills with backend architecture and ML integration, and holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence that complements his practical delivery of secure, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Liverpool John Moores UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Bachelor’s Degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Guilin University of Electronic Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
php10
docker10
nginx10
dockers10
dockerfile10
scripting9
mysql9
redis9
shell9
script9
sh9
openssl8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
garymengcom/dnmp
Apr 2017 - Aug 2020
Docker LNMP (Nginx, PHP7/PHP5, MySQL, Redis)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 250 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gary primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the Docker environment for an LNMP stack. They integrated updates and configurations to ensure multi-domain support, including the deployment of SSL certificates. Contributions include setting up PHP extensions, optimizing the directory structure, and updating the installation scripts to improve the overall functionality and efficiency of the Docker-based development environment.
nginxlnmpredismysqlphp5
yeszao/readin
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:177 pushes, 5 branches, 1 tag in 3 months
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