Kai Su
Engineering Manager at Snowflake
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Su is an engineering manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building scalable backend and infrastructure systems for companies from VMware to Snowflake. He has led cross-organizational initiatives in real-time data sync, secure attachments, and Kubernetes networking abstractions—delivering IaaS networking, load balancing, and flow visibility for vSphere with Tanzu. At Airtable and Observe he drove technical strategy and execution for critical backend services such as asynchronous task execution and data ingest pipelines powering AI and sync features. Kai pairs hands-on DevOps work—contributing Ansible automation for NSX-T—to managerial craft, improving reliability and idempotency in network deployments. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and is known for translating complex distributed-systems requirements into pragmatic, production-ready designs. Colleagues describe him as a builder who grows teams and infrastructure in tandem to unlock enterprise-scale product expansion.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Communications Engineering, BS Communications Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering at Rutgers University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
ansible-galaxy10
automation10
automations10
infrastructure10
vmware10
python10
ansible10
network-automation9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/ansible-for-nsxt
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
Ansible delivers simple IT automation that ends repetitive tasks and frees up DevOps teams for more strategic work. This project is to enable this automation for NSX-T installation.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kai primarily contributed to the automation of NSX-T environments using Ansible. Their work included addressing idempotency issues in transport node creation, fixing logical switch creation, and modifying deployment configurations. Furthermore, the user made updates to handle optional configuration parameters in the deployment process, improving the module's flexibility. These changes aimed to enhance the reliability and efficiency of automating network infrastructure deployments.
nsx-tit-automationdevopsnetwork-automationansible
kais66/nsx-t-gen
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
concourse pipeline to install nsx-t
Contributions:78 pushes, 1 branch, 25 comments in 2 months
nsx-tpipelineconcoursensxconcourse-pipeline
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