Kahou Lei
Principal Software Engineer at Okta
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKahou Lei is a Principal Software Engineer based in California with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, infrastructure automation, and multi-tenant SaaS. Currently at Okta, he has led architecture and delivery of major cloud products and previously built a cloud intrusion detection SaaS on Kubernetes at Corelight. His background spans deep networking and container platform work at Cisco and Spirent, including significant OpenStack Horizon UI contributions and backend networking plugins. Kahou combines hands-on full-stack development with team leadership and a practical focus on reliability, observability, and operator-friendly tooling. Notably, he has improved UX and theming in the widely used OpenStack Horizon dashboard while also addressing low-level container networking cleanup and validation in open-source projects.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
container10
docker10
horizon10
networking10
dockers10
go10
openstack10
html10
network10
testing9
python9
django9
unit-test9
css8
javascript8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
contiv/netplugin
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Container networking for various use cases
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 12 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kahou primarily focused on improving the Contiv network plugin's integration with Docker, particularly addressing issues related to network deletion and validation. They implemented fixes for network deletion, ensuring proper cleanup of Contiv networks when Docker networks are removed. Additionally, they contributed to the testing and stability of the plugin by adding unit tests and validation checks. The user also updated the codebase to use more info-level logging and made various CLI description updates.
casesuse-casescontainer-networkingnetwork-automationnetworking
openstack/horizon
Nov 2014 - May 2015
OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kahou primarily focused on enhancing the OpenStack Horizon dashboard's user interface and functionality. Their contributions involved correcting UI button behavior on the instance log page and improving sorting capabilities in the floating IP table. They also addressed usability issues and improved the user experience by modifying HTML templates and updating allocation pool features. Furthermore, the user implemented a custom theme feature by refactoring existing styles, demonstrating a broader understanding of the project's architecture.
horizonopendevopenstackdashboardenterprise
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