Hongchao Deng
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHongchao Deng is an engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on AI platform work at Anyscale. He has deep Kubernetes and etcd expertise from core contributions at CoreOS and Alibaba Cloud—where he helped scale clusters to 26,000 nodes—and continues to shape the ecosystem as co-chair of the CNCF App-Delivery TAG. His open-source footprint spans high-impact projects like Kubernetes, etcd, Ray, and operator tooling, with hands-on work in self-hosted etcd, cluster launchers, and CI/CD optimizations. He blends backend and DevOps skills across AWS/GCP/Azure and specialty providers, and has repeatedly improved resilience and deployment automation for production systems. Notably, he cofounded a Kubernetes-native remote development startup and has a CMU master’s in computer science, reflecting both entrepreneurial initiative and rigorous technical grounding.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sun Yat-Sen UniversityMaster's degree, Network and Security, Master's degree, Network and Security at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (64)
build-time10
autoscaling10
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
container10
docker10
filesystem10
key-value-store10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
rendering10
testing10
lifecycle10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/vault-operator
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Run and manage Vault on Kubernetes simply and securely
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:248 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Hongchao primarily focused on infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project. They made significant contributions by introducing automated scripts for creating and cleaning up resources within the Kubernetes environment. Key changes include updating the Kubernetes client and API, making the vault work with etcd3 backend, and adding readiness and liveness probes for improved monitoring. The user also worked on enabling TLS and security configurations to enhance the overall security posture of the deployment.
kubernetesvaultsecurelyoperatorsecurity
AliyunContainerService/derrick
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
🐳A tool to help you containerize application in seconds
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 98 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Hongchao primarily focused on restructuring the project's codebase, refactoring packages, and renaming files. Their contributions involved changes to core application components like `main.go`, command-line interface functions, and core packages. Furthermore, the user integrated updated template functionality into the project, and generated documentation on the Derrick documentation website.
containerscontainercontainerizedocker
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