Li Yang
Senior Staff Field Engineer at Kong Inc.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLi Yang is a Senior Staff Field Engineer based in Melbourne with five years of focused experience in reliability and customer-facing engineering roles at Kong, built on a longer foundation in security and support at DigiCert and Symantec. He blends deep technical troubleshooting with pragmatic system design to help customers operate cloud-native APIs reliably, rising through successive engineering tiers at Kong since 2020. Known for a humble, curious approach—“be honest, be humble, be curious and be helpful”—he prioritizes clear communication and practical solutions under pressure. Educated in computer science and information engineering in Adelaide and Shenzhen, he brings cross-cultural perspective and a steady track record of improving operational resilience for enterprise customers.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Degree Bachelor Computer Science, Degree Bachelor Computer Science at University of AdelaideDegree Bachelor Information Engineering, Degree Bachelor Information Engineering at Shenzhen University
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (58)
api-management10
kubernetes10
artificial-intelligence10
docker10
reverse-proxy10
nix10
nixos10
linux10
load-balancing10
kong-plugin10
home-manager10
luajit10
consul10
api10
gateway10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
liyangau/redis-demo
Mar 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
liyangau/nur-packages
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 years
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