Jacky Tian
Founder at Little Pisces
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacky Tian is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, cloud deployment pipelines, and production services across companies like DoorDash, Fanatics, and AWS. He combines hands-on engineering with startup instincts—co-founding ventures twice and currently running Little Pisces—while shipping reliable infrastructure work and deployment tooling. Jacky has contributed to the prominent open-source Magma project, improving build processes, CI resilience, and automated deployments, reflecting strong DevOps and cloud expertise. Based in Vancouver and trained at UC Berkeley, he pairs product-minded engineering with practical documentation and API work that smooths team handoffs and production launches.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (9)
go10
devops10
cicd10
dockers9
docker9
ansible-galaxy8
ansible8
aws7
api-design7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
magma/magma
Feb 2019 - Sep 2021
Platform for building access networks and modular network services
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 278 reviews, 486 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jacky's contributions primarily involved improving the build process and making configuration easier, including a download target for Go modules, removing unnecessary complexity in the codebase, and managing dependency fetching retries in CI jobs. Additionally, the user added tools for code deployment using CodeDeploy and created deployment documentation, indicating familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployment. The user also touched upon API definitions and documentation.
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xjtian/zmk-config
Aug 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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