Lin-yao Li
China
Summary
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Top SchoolLin-yao Li is a polyglot software engineer with 12 years of experience designing high-performance, scalable backend systems and AWS cloud infrastructure. He has delivered production services across startups and large tech firms—Zendesk, honestbee, Amazon, and Landing AI—working hands-on with Node.js, Python FastAPI, Ruby on Rails, Go, Kubernetes, and data pipelines. Lin-yao favors reliability and operational excellence over feature bloat, often focusing on observability, networking middlewares, and cost-effective cloud patterns. He has contributed to notable open-source tooling such as refactoring Maxwell (a popular MySQL-to-Kafka producer) to simplify codepaths and improve ordered JSON outputs and JDBC options. Comfortable across databases (Postgres, DynamoDB), messaging (Kafka), and APM/logging ecosystems, he bridges infrastructure and application concerns to ship resilient services. Trained in computer science with graduate study in the U.S., he combines academic rigor with a pragmatic focus on measurable system behavior.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS & M.Eng., Computer Science, BS & M.Eng., Computer Science at Beihang UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
Github Skills (7)
javas10
json10
kafka10
mysql10
java10
configuration-management9
jdbc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/maxwell
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Maxwell's daemon, a mysql-to-json kafka producer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 11 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lin-yao primarily focused on refactoring and simplifying the Maxwell codebase, a MySQL-to-Kafka producer. Their contributions involved removing unnecessary packages and dependencies. The user also made adjustments to the `MaxwellConfig` and `RowMap` classes to incorporate exclusion of columns, and to provide ordered JSON outputs. Furthermore, they implemented modifications to include JDBC options.
to-jsonavrosinkmysqldaemon
linyaoli/config_bak
Oct 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
configsconfigbackup
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