Keery Nie
Staff Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Yantai, Shandong, China
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKeery Nie is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years' experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently at Kong in Yantai, China. He blends backend engineering and DevOps expertise, having driven improvements to the Kong API Gateway—especially AWS Lambda integration, credential caching fixes, and performance tuning for statsd/datadog plugins. Prior roles at Binance and Douban sharpened his production reliability and systems administration skills across large-scale services. Known for pragmatic bug fixes and test coverage improvements, he focuses on making complex integrations robust and observable. An Xidian University computer science graduate, he pairs deep infrastructure know-how with hands-on open-source contributions to a widely used API gateway.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
学士, 计算机科学与技术, 学士, 计算机科学与技术 at Xidian University
Github Skills (15)
plugin-development10
lua10
aws-lambda10
aws10
api-gateway10
devops10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
api-management9
docker9
kubernetes9
testing8
luajit8
reverse-proxy8
go5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong
May 2022 - Jan 2023
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:432 reviews, 62 commits, 404 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Keery primarily contributed to the Kong API Gateway's AWS Lambda plugin, enhancing its functionality and addressing related issues. They implemented features like supporting string-type status codes and adding the `requestContext` field for AWS Gateway compatibility. Moreover, the user fixed bugs related to credential caching and request-transformer plugin and improved test coverage. The user also worked on improving the performance of the statsd and datadog plugins.
api-gatewaynginxkong-pluginserverlessload-balancing
windmgc/test_repo
Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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