Lingxian Kong
Principal Engineer - Modern Integration
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolLingxian Kong is a Principal Engineer specializing in cloud-native integration with over 14 years of DevOps and platform engineering experience, currently leading ASB Bank’s Modern Integration team to deliver the next-generation API service platform. A Certified Kubernetes Administrator and multi-cloud architect with AWS, Azure and GCP specialties, Lingxian combines deep Python and Go development skills with hands-on leadership of large open-source efforts—having been a Project Technical Lead for OpenStack and the OpenStack Cloud Provider in Kubernetes. His contributions span high-impact projects like Octavia, Magnum, Gophercloud and Ansible, where he improved load-balancing integrations, CI/deployment workflows and Kubernetes ingress behavior. He has a track record of bridging upstream open-source work with product delivery (notably while at Huawei and Catalyst Cloud) and building automation tooling such as GitOps bots and Kubernetes operators. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Lingxian blends systems-level engineering with pragmatic platform strategy, often focusing on deployment robustness and developer experience improvements that aren’t obvious from architecture diagrams alone.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Telecommunications Engineering, Master's degree Telecommunications Engineering at Xidian University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
context-manager10
kubernetes10
authorizations10
benchmark10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
ingress10
benchmarking10
context-api10
cloud-infrastructure10
load-balancing10
dockers10
networking10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/cloud-provider-openstack
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 165 reviews, 146 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Lingxian contributed to the OpenStack cloud provider for Kubernetes, focusing on authorization, ingress, and the integration of Octavia, an open-source load balancing service. They implemented features like supporting various authorization policies, enabling internal Ingress, and improving the management of security groups. The user also worked on optimizing the OpenStack ingress controller by leveraging Octavia's batch update members functionality and ensuring resources are not unnecessarily recreated, thereby enhancing the efficiency and reliability of the system.
k8s-sig-storagecsi-plugink8s-sig-cloud-providerkubernetesopenstack
gophercloud/gophercloud
Apr 2018 - Sep 2021
Gophercloud: an OpenStack SDK for Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 30 commits, 31 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lingxian primarily contributed to the implementation of LBaaS v2 L7 policy support within the Gophercloud OpenStack SDK. Their work involved creating and listing L7 policies, and integrating the functionality with the OpenStack load balancing service. They developed the necessary structures and requests and ensured integration with the OpenStack service. Furthermore, the user added supporting features for L7 policies, encompassing Get, Delete, and Update functionalities.
golanggophercloudsdkopenstackopenstack-sdk
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