Hao Liang
Director, Platform Engineering IEG Global
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHao Liang is a platform engineering leader with over a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and data platforms across major gaming and entertainment companies. Currently Director of Platform Engineering at Tencent Games IEG Global in Palo Alto, he has progressed through technical and managerial roles focused on data, ML platforms, and studio services. A hands-on engineer and CNCF/Kubernetes community participant, he contributes to projects like Kubernetes scheduler-plugins and edge-native systems such as SuperEdge, improving scheduler behavior, HA, and operational tooling. He blends applied statistics training with pragmatic DevOps and backend development to drive reliable, observable systems and production-ready monitoring (Grafana) and leader election patterns. Known for moving between strategic platform leadership and detailed code-level improvements, he thrives where architecture meets day-to-day operability. His background suggests a rare mix of data science rigor and cloud-native systems craft that helps bridge teams from research to scalable production.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS Applied Statistics, MS Applied Statistics at California State University - East Bay
Japanese, Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (26)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
container10
job-scheduler10
testing10
cloud-infrastructure10
etcd10
plugin10
scheduler10
go10
task-scheduler10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-services10
edge-computing10
devops10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kstone-io/kstone
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Kstone is an etcd management platform, providing cluster management, monitoring, backup, inspection, data migration, visual viewing of etcd data, and intelligent diagnosis.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 24 commits, 25 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Hao primarily contributed to the Kstone etcd management platform by adding comments to the code, fixing typos, and refactoring code. They made changes to cluster provider files and controller files. Further, the user added etcd endpoint alarm inspection, a Grafana dashboard, and corresponding tests, indicating work related to monitoring and alerting. Finally, the user has also done code refactoring, replacing secret cacher with secret informer and added leader election support.
cluster-managementoperatordashboardcloudnativeetcd-management
kubernetes-sigs/scheduler-plugins
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Repository for out-of-tree scheduler plugins based on scheduler framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 9 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Hao contributed to the scheduler plugins repository, focusing on enhancements to core functionalities and integration. They added comments to the `calculateBoundPods` method and implemented a pod effect plugin with associated integration tests. Moreover, they updated options and added scheme test files. This indicates a focus on improving the scheduler's functionality and testing capabilities.
schedulerk8s-sig-schedulingout-of-tree
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