Gray Liang is a pragmatic engineering leader with 10+ years of embedded software experience and a decade of people and project management, currently supervising customer service data analysis for a major Guangzhou utility. He has led cross-functional teams of up to 17 staff, concurrently managed three product teams, and coordinated development, testing and maintenance across China, Canada and India. Gray specializes in C/C++ systems for telecom and access-network backends, has driven delivery of 25+ rapid features and overseen five major releases while resolving over 650 customer issues. Familiar with TL9000/CMMI5-aligned processes, he excels at translating customer problems into requirements, designs and functional specs under tight timelines and 7x24 on-call pressure. An active contributor to low-level networking tooling, his GitHub work includes enhancements to the well-known cilium project around eBPF datapath, IPsec and proxy functionality—reflecting deep expertise in networking and Kubernetes environments. Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English, he combines hands-on debugging skill with a proven capacity to scale teams and stabilize mission-critical products.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, Computer Science and Project, bachelor, Computer Science and Project at South China University of Technology
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:398 reviews, 175 PRs, 263 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Gray primarily focused on enhancing the Cilium networking and security platform. Their contributions involved implementing and fixing features related to network configuration, IPsec, and proxy functionalities within the BPF datapath. The user addressed networking issues in development environments and contributed to test infrastructure. These changes show strong expertise in low-level networking and related tooling for Kubernetes environments.
Contributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 11 PRs in 11 months
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