Max Hu
Founder at Tencent
Shanghai, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMax Hu is a founder and seasoned product and project leader with 12+ years delivering games and cloud-native tooling across startups and industry giants, including Tencent. He blends deep game development and production experience (from MMOs on Gamebryo to mobile and console titles) with hands-on backend and DevOps work in Kubernetes and FinOps, co-founding gocrane and contributing to CNCF projects like Clusternet. Max has led large, cross-disciplinary teams and fundraising efforts, shipping products internationally while maintaining strength in technical design, HPA/autoscaling logic, and cloud cost analytics. Comfortable presenting to investors and clients, he pairs strategic vision with detailed execution and rapid learning. Based in Shanghai with ties to Canada, he combines a software engineering background with an earlier biochemical engineering degree—an unusual mix that informs his analytical, systems-oriented approach.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The First Middle School of Nantong City, Jiangsu ProvinceUndergraduate of Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Undergraduate of Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Fudan UniversityBachelor of Science, Biochemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Biochemical Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology
English
Github Skills (18)
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
controller10
led-controller10
controls10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cluster-manager10
cluster-api10
controller-advice10
cloud-native10
clustering10
apidoc9
api9
orchestration9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gocrane/crane
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Crane is a FinOps Platform for Cloud Resource Analytics and Economics in Kubernetes clusters. The goal is not only to help users to manage cloud cost easier but also ensure the quality of applications.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 298 reviews, 421 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Max's contributions primarily focused on initializing project components and developing functionalities within the `pkg/controller/hpa` package, specifically concerning AdvancedHorizontalPodAutoscaler. The code changes involve the creation and reconciliation of HPA objects, including logic for creating, updating, and deleting HPAs. The user's work also touches upon prediction integration, focusing on reconciling and managing time series predictions.
gcpcost-estimationgoalclustersaws
clusternet/clusternet
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
[CNCF Sandbox Project] Managing your Kubernetes clusters (including public, private, edge, etc.) as easily as visiting the Internet
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Max contributed to the development of the manifest controller and other Kubernetes controllers, indicating back-end development focus. They implemented functionalities like inserting a recorder and populating the base and description. Their commits involved setting up and configuring various components within the Clusternet project, suggesting DevOps-related tasks as well.
orchestrationmulti-clusterclusterscluster-managementout-of-the-box
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