Kelong Wang - Site Reliability Engineer at Dropbox

Kelong Wang

Site Reliability Engineer at Dropbox

San Francisco Bay Area United States

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Kelong Wang is a Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale storage and database systems for companies including Dropbox and Uber. He combines deep systems and storage expertise—from Cassandra and M3DB production engineering to flash appliance serviceability—with a pragmatic focus on simplicity, robustness, and efficiency. His early work building a CDN and a patented DNS-based Global Traffic Manager and continued contributions to Apache Traffic Server show a long-running commitment to high-performance networking and open-source collaboration. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and grounded in research-quality work from Stony Brook, he excels at turning complex distributed-system problems into reliable, production-ready solutions.

13 years of coding experience

8 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor, Computer Software, Bachelor, Computer Software at Beihang University

Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.90, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.90 at Stony Brook University

English, Chinese

Github Skills (12)

http10

caching10

debug10

proxy10

c-language10

cprogramming-language10

disk-cache10

apache10

web-cache10

memory-cache10

object-cache10

spdy8

Programming languages (2)

C++JavaScript

Github contributions (5)

apache/trafficserver

Oct 2012 - May 2013

Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:5 commits in 6 months

Contributions summary:Kelong contributed to the Apache Traffic Server project by addressing several bugs and improving code quality. They fixed a malformed HTTP version string in the SPDY plugin and resolved an issue that caused a crash when requesting a SSL URL within the logging module. Additionally, the user enhanced the `channel_stats` plugin by counting 5xx responses and cleaning up the code. Furthermore, they worked on the combo_handler plugin, fixing crashes with non-200 responses.

proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd

wkl/vimrc

Feb 2015 - Apr 2020

Contributions:16 pushes in 5 years 2 months

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