Justin Yang
Lead Test Engineer at SpaceX
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Yang is a Lead Test Engineer at SpaceX with six years of experience blending software, avionics, and test engineering to deliver reliable systems in high-stakes environments. Trained in EECS at UC Berkeley, he has moved from avionics test roles into leadership, driving test strategy and execution for complex flight hardware and software. He contributes to open-source infrastructure—improving robustness and race-condition handling in the popular Kuberhealthy Kubernetes operator—showing a practical DevOps and backend mindset. Known for a “when in doubt, learn” approach, Justin combines hands-on debugging, systems thinking, and strong documentation to harden distributed systems and testing pipelines.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyWestview High School
Github Skills (9)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
error-handling9
testing8
automations7
automation7
yaml4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kuberhealthy/kuberhealthy
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
A Kubernetes operator for running synthetic checks as pods. Works great with Prometheus!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and reliability of Kuberhealthy checks. Their contributions included implementing new environment variables, specifically for check start times, and adding logic to handle potential race conditions during UUID verification. They also made several improvements to the codebase, including better error handling and documentation improvements. These changes aimed to improve the robustness and stability of Kuberhealthy, enhancing its ability to monitor Kubernetes environments.
healthoperatorkubernetescheckssynthetic
2infinitee/basic-scripts
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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