Keith Yang is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building resilient backend services, CI/CD automation, and SRE practices, currently based in New Taipei, Taiwan. He has driven delivery across 40+ projects including POS integrations with foodpanda and GrabFood, architected scalable Django/Python systems, and reduced release cycle time by 66% through high-coverage testing and Jenkins pipelines. Keith founded his company’s SRE function, lifting reliability, security (AWS WAFv2) and performance through reusable automation and best practices. A pragmatic full-stack engineer and artisan coder, he has contributed to core RPC/HTTP and SSL support in the Thriftpy project, reflecting deep protocol and networking experience beyond typical backend work. He combines cross-functional communication with technical ownership, enabling rapid growth from 2,000 to 10,000+ restaurants and 4× transaction volume at iCHEF.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer & Information Science, Bachelor, Computer & Information Science at Soochow University
Thriftpy has been deprecated, please migrate to https://github.com/Thriftpy/thriftpy2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Keith primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Thriftpy library, focusing on enhancing its HTTP and RPC capabilities. This included implementing HTTP server and client functionalities, which involved writing code for request handling, transport, and protocol processing. They also added support for SSL in both RPC client and server implementations, and also addressed bugs related to HTTP transport and the library's interaction with Python's socket and transport libraries. These efforts likely improved the library's capabilities.
Contributions:3 releases, 10 commits, 3 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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