Ka Wan
Technical Lead - Client Observability at Yelp
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKa Wan is a technical lead with nine years of experience building observability and compute infrastructure at Yelp, currently heading Client Observability efforts from New York. He blends engineering rigor with product-minded leadership, having driven culture shifts toward customer focus, led roadmapping, and owned cross-region migrations and platform transitions like Mesos to Kubernetes. Ka excels at turning complex distributed systems and rollout mechanics into dependable developer-facing platforms and observability surfaces that surface real performance insight. Known for pragmatic automation—state machines for safe configuration rollout and cost-reducing region switchover work—he pairs hands-on implementation with team coaching to scale impact. A Tufts CS alumnus and former teaching assistant, he brings both technical depth and a knack for translating developer needs into measurable platform outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Tufts University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
sensu10
docker10
yelp10
java9
chronos9
paas9
k8s9
infrastructure9
microservices8
distributed-systems8
kubernetes8
golang8
marathon7
cloud-native7
twitter-sentiment-analysis6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
charleskwwan/snakes-and-routers
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:32 pushes, 27 branches in 1 month
charleskwwan/comp117-filecopy
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 6 branches in 14 days
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