Kelu Diao
Backend Engineer at Honest
Bangkok, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolKelu Diao is a backend engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across Amazon, ByteDance, and startups, now based in Bangkok. He has strong foundations in high-performance computing (Master’s from Purdue) and hands-on experience with distributed systems such as AWS QLDB-backed retail inventory services. Kelu blends research-driven problem solving from Microsoft Research Asia and Purdue with pragmatic engineering, contributing to open-source projects like pytube to improve Python 3 compatibility and batch download reliability. Motivated by user benefit, he focuses on robustness and cross-version compatibility, often tackling edge cases that improve real-world reliability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, High Performance Computing, 4.0, Master's degree, High Performance Computing, 4.0 at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.4, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.4 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
apim10
api10
wrapper10
python10
youtube10
debug9
debugging9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pytube/pytube
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Kelu primarily contributed to improving the `pytube` library's compatibility and functionality. Their work included adding Python 3 compatibility across several files, fixing bugs related to video playback errors, and introducing batch download capabilities. They also made adjustments to handle different data types and incorporate improvements to the core logic of the library. These modifications were essential for supporting different Python versions and improving user experience.
downloadingpython-librarydownloaderpythonapi-wrapper
honestbank/event-driver
Jan 2024 - May 2024
Org-wise framework library in golang, for managing and handling events in applications.
Contributions:8 releases, 6 reviews, 50 PRs in 3 months
backendworkspace-code-infrastructure-prod
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