Joey Wang
Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoey Wang is a software development manager at AWS with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, CDK tooling, and GenAI-enabled platforms. He progressed from hands-on engineering on Amazon EKS—where he led backend changes to harden upgrade workflows—to technical leadership roles shaping scalable orchestration and release reliability. Prior to AWS he architected ML platforms and pipelines for Rakuten’s Global Data Science division and built AI products at startups, pairing production-grade engineering with applied research. Columbia-educated and New York–based, he blends manager-level delivery and people leadership with deep backend expertise and a pragmatic knack for improving upgrade safety in widely used open-source projects.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Columbia University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (6)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aws/eks-anywhere
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure 🚀
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 825 reviews, 218 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Joey primarily focused on enhancing the upgrade process within the `aws/eks-anywhere` repository, specifically by adding checks and validations before transitioning control plane components during upgrades. They modified the cluster manager to ensure the correct states of various components, such as machine deployments, and the status of components before moving CAPI during upgrades. The user's contributions included code modifications within the `pkg/clustermanager/cluster_manager.go` file to integrate these new checks and improve the overall robustness of the upgrade process.
kubernetes-deploymentamazon-ekstinkerbellhelmamazon
jiayiwang7/eks-anywhere
Sep 2021 - May 2024
Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure. 🚀
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 453 pushes in 2 years 8 months
amazon-ekshelmamazoninfrastructureeks
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