Jeff Yuan
Senior Software Engineer (SRE) at Red Hat
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Yuan is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and kernel/back-end specialist with over a decade of experience designing high-performance networking stacks, cloud backends, and distributed systems. He combines deep Linux kernel and DPDK expertise—having authored key drivers and adaptation layers at VMware—with modern cloud-native SRE practice at Red Hat, operating Azure Red Hat OpenShift and contributing GuardRails controller work. Proficient in Go and C, he builds and debugs containerized, high-availability systems across AWS and GCP, and automates infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation/CDK and CI/CD pipelines. His background includes creating a patent-backed disaster-recovery product that replicates services across WANs and hands-on telco-grade backend work, reflecting a rare blend of low-level performance tuning and cloud-scale reliability. Fluent in English and experienced in multicultural teams, he pairs strong security foundations from a Master’s in Digital Security with pragmatic problem-solving for complex customer issues.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Beijing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsMaster, Digital Security, Second Class Honors First Division, Master, Digital Security, Second Class Honors First Division at University of Auckland
Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
automation10
automations10
go10
openshift10
devops10
cicd10
gatekeeper10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/ARO-RP
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:139 reviews, 25 commits, 61 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on the development and management of the GuardRails controller. They implemented the core functionalities for the controller, including adding more feature flags to support more configurations. Additionally, they worked on removing unnecessary gatekeeper policies and related components when the feature is disabled, ensuring a clean and efficient system. Finally, the user improved existing implementations, restructured code, and added policy-related test cases to protect privileged namespaces.
azureopenshiftredhat
yjst2012/ARO-RP
Mar 2022 - Jun 2025
Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP
Contributions:110 pushes, 24 branches in 3 years 3 months
red-hatopenshifthatkubernetesazure
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