Lingkai Shen
Software Engineer at Google
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLingkai Shen is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native systems and full-stack applications, currently contributing to Google’s engineering efforts from Old Toronto. He has a strong background in infrastructure-as-code, having added Firebase support and cleanup tooling to the popular GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules Terraform project, alongside hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, and modern web stacks. Lingkai’s work spans production services and research: from automating investor workflows and building customer segmentation models at Fidelity to publishing research on speech-based diagnostics while at University of Toronto. Comfortable across backend, frontend and data-driven projects, he combines pragmatic automation with a taste for “things making” — small details like using an npm profile picture hint at a playful, maker mindset behind solid engineering.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering Science, Very Good, Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering Science, Very Good at University of Toronto
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (9)
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
google-cloud-platform10
go10
firebase10
terraform10
gcp10
testing9
google-cloud-storage8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Add Google Cloud Platform support to Terraform
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:107 reviews, 6 commits, 52 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lingkai's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing Google Cloud Platform support within Terraform, specifically focusing on Firebase services. They implemented delete support and sweepers for Firebase Web Apps, Firebase Hosting sites, and Firebase Hosting channels. The user also added Terraform examples and tests for various Firebase services, demonstrating their expertise in configuring and managing cloud resources through infrastructure-as-code.
golanggcpappenginegooglecloudgooglecloudplatform
rainshen49/DefinitelyTyped
Jun 2017 - Jun 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years
type-definitionshigh-qualitydefinitionstypescriptquality
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