Heng Lu
Software Developer at Optiver
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolHeng Lu is a software developer based in Shanghai with five years of professional experience building full-stack and infrastructure systems across trading and consumer platforms. He has delivered production systems at Optiver and Akuna Capital and previously led an Aggregation Discovery team at Indeed, applying web crawling and machine learning to detect new job sources and deduplicate listings. Heng contributes to prominent open-source cloud tooling—enhancing the hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm with new data sources, container registry features, and APM/environment variable support—demonstrating a practical DevOps and backend focus. Comfortable across C++, Python, and cloud-native stacks, he combines low-latency trading experience with scalable web and ML-driven products. Collected internships at Baidu, Xiaomi, Netease, and Akuna underscore a long-standing curiosity for systems, data, and games that informs his pragmatic engineering approach.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Software Engineering, Bachelor Software Engineering at Nanjing UniversityMaster's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (13)
terraformer10
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
cicd9
kubernetes-pods9
azure-service-bus9
kubernetes9
networking8
gremlin6
titan6
hadoop6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:219 reviews, 178 commits, 347 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Heng's contributions centered on enhancing the azurerm_terraform-provider-azurerm provider, specifically addressing optional arguments within the azurerm_local_network_gateway resource and adding data sources for service bus queues and topics. They also added functionality related to container registries, including adding support for public network access and, adding tests and enhancements to existing resources like Kubernetes Cluster and the Azure Service Bus namespace. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs in the vm's test and implemented features for the Azure Spring Cloud service, encompassing the addition of features for the `application_performance_monitoring_types `, `environment_variables` `sensitive_environment_variables`, etc.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
ms-henglu/bicep-types-az
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Bicep type definitions for ARM resources
Contributions:15 PRs, 31 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 10 months
biceptype-definitionsdefinitionsarm
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