Liang Yan
Software Engineer at openSUSE Project
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiang Yan is a systems-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building and optimizing AI infrastructure, GPU virtualization, and distributed ML platforms. Currently at CoreWeave and an active openSUSE maintainer, he blends low-level kernel and hypervisor work with cloud-native orchestration (K8s/Kubeflow) to drive ML performance and reliability. His background includes leading GPU and RDMA efforts at DigitalOcean—improving MLPerf throughput and enabling cross-generation live migration—and delivering commercial vGPU and ARM64 virtualization solutions at SUSE. Known for shipping end-to-end solutions from kernel patches to platform integrations, he frequently collaborates with hardware vendors (NVIDIA, AMD, ARM) and has translated research-grade techniques into production systems. Based in Louisville, KY, he pairs deep C/C++ and systems expertise with a knack for squeezing performance out of heterogeneous hardware stacks.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Michigan Technological UniversityBachelor's Degree Heat treatment equipment and its control system, Bachelor's Degree Heat treatment equipment and its control system at Shandong University
English, Japanese, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (87)
tooling10
security10
serverless10
firecracker10
multicore10
linux10
rpm10
virtualization10
rust10
sandbox10
admin10
storage10
kernel10
documentation10
spec10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
liayan/firecracker
Feb 2019 - Sep 2021
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years 6 months
secureserverlessmicrovmscomputingserverless-computing
liayan/FlexFlow
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
A distributed deep learning framework that supports flexible parallelization strategies.
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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