Kwek Yang
Software Engineer at TikTok
Singapore
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Top SchoolKwek Yang is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and platform tooling, currently contributing at TikTok in Singapore. He has strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, observability, and automation—having managed on-prem clusters hosting 1,000+ services, bootstrapped an observability platform, and halved storage needs for a VSCode extensions API server. Previously he designed RESTful APIs for millions of entities, implemented policy-driven access controls, and led efforts that enabled daily deploys and smoother dependency upgrades. Kwek blends product-minded engineering with operational rigor, mentoring juniors and improving cross-team processes to make complex systems easier to run. His background spans research and applied systems work—from robot APIs at Polytechnique Montréal to cybersecurity research at INTERPOL—reflecting a curiosity for low-level and infrastructure challenges.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma with Merit Cyber & Digital Security, Diploma with Merit Cyber & Digital Security at Temasek PolytechnicBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (90)
github10
package-management10
bitnami10
fits10
serverless10
charts10
helm10
azure-devops10
dependency-manager10
kubernetes10
sandbox10
gitlab10
bitbucket10
npm10
virtual-machine10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
k-jingyang/k-jingyang.github.io
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Personal blog & learning journal
Contributions:116 commits, 9 PRs, 129 pushes in 6 years 9 months
journaljekyll
k-jingyang/firecracker
Sep 2022 - Nov 2023
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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