Mengqi Yu
SDE at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMengqi Yu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, currently working on EKS scalability at AWS in San Francisco. Previously at Google, Mengqi was a core maintainer across several Kubernetes ecosystem projects—kpt, kubebuilder, kustomize, and kubectl—bringing deep experience in controller tooling and function runtimes. As SIG-scalability co-chair and an ex-Google engineer, they combine production-grade distributed systems know-how with open-source stewardship. Mengqi holds a CS master's from UC San Diego (3.9 GPA) and a BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Colleagues know them for bridging developer tooling and large-cluster performance work, often surfacing nuanced trade-offs between extensibility and runtime cost. They bring a pragmatic, maintainer-first perspective to making complex cloud infrastructure reliable and scalable.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (117)
benchmark10
subproject10
controller10
stress-testing10
security10
scheduling10
kubebuilder10
schema10
openapi10
mesos10
yaml-configuration10
charts10
kustomize10
kubectl10
validation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mengqiy/test-infra
May 2017 - Feb 2022
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Contributions:10 pushes, 24 branches in 4 years 9 months
testingkubernetesinfrastructuretest-infrastructure
mengqiy/kubernetes
Aug 2016 - Jan 2026
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:4 PRs, 579 pushes, 241 branches in 9 years 6 months
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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