Kai Xiang
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at TikTok
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Xiang is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems across Cloud Foundry, Meta, and TikTok. He blends deep expertise in BOSH, Cloud Foundry, AWS, Docker, Terraform and MySQL with hands-on DevOps automation—contributing to well-known open-source BOSH and Cloud Foundry projects to harden deployments and CI pipelines. Kai has led SRE teams and owned reliability for business-critical services, driving incident retrospectives, monitoring, and multi-site replication for on-demand databases. Known for pragmatic engineering, he often surfaces infrastructure-level fixes (race conditions, CI robustness, deployment idempotency) rather than superficial tooling changes, making systems measurably more resilient.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Wuhan University
Github Skills (34)
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cloud-foundry10
warden10
configuration-management10
bash10
cicd10
chef-client10
automation10
infrastructure10
aws10
yaml10
infrastructure-as-code10
chef-solo10
automations10
devops10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry-attic/cf-release
May 2012 - Aug 2016
Deprecated: Cloud Foundry Release
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 46 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kai's contributions primarily involved modifying configuration files and scripts related to the deployment and operation of Cloud Foundry. They made updates to various YAML templates, including those for UAA, health manager, cloud controller, and DEA. Several commits addressed deployment and configuration issues, indicating a focus on infrastructure and deployment automation. The changes also included updates to logging configurations and file system permissions.
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cloudfoundry/bosh
Mar 2013 - Nov 2015
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kai primarily contributed to improving the BOSH deployment process and CI/CD pipeline by addressing race conditions and automation issues. They fixed bugs in the system spec helpers and external CPI tests related to AWS infrastructure, ensuring the tests correctly handle failures and resource creation. Their work included modifying shell scripts to umount loopback and bind mounts, and incorporating changes for the updated S3 stemcell. Furthermore, the user's efforts focused on making the BOSH bootstrap process more robust and reliable.
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