Mengyi Zhou
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMengyi Zhou is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native observability and distributed systems, currently shaping CloudWatch Application Signals at AWS in Vancouver. She has deep hands-on expertise in OpenTelemetry and AWS integrations—contributing to widely used projects like the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector and the opentelemetry-collector-contrib awsemfexporter—where she improved CI/CD, concurrency, metric batching, and non-root builds. Prior roles at eBay, Ant Group, and Trip.com honed her Kubernetes, PaaS, and middleware skills, and she’s spoken at KubeCon Shanghai, reflecting a blend of engineering depth and community engagement. Known for pragmatic refactors that reduce operational friction, she focuses on reliable telemetry pipelines and efficient metric export at scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Tongji University
Github Skills (12)
opentelemetry10
docker10
go10
cloudwatch10
aws10
dockers10
cicd10
testing10
kubernetes-pods9
prometheus9
kubernetes9
bash7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aws-observability/aws-otel-collector
Feb 2021 - May 2021
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector (see ADOT Roadmap at https://github.com/orgs/aws-observability/projects/4)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 14 commits, 19 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mengyi focused on enhancing the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector's build and testing infrastructure. Contributions included updating CI/CD jobs, fixing logging initialization issues, and adding default configurations for Container Insights on EKS with Prometheus, demonstrating a focus on automated testing and integration. These changes involved modifying test case definitions and adjusting the build process to improve the Collector's reliability and integration capabilities within the AWS ecosystem. The user also addressed build issues related to running the collector as a non-root user, improving usability.
opentelemetry-collectortracingorgsobservabilityaws
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mengyi primarily contributed to the `awsemfexporter` component, focusing on enhancing the export of metrics to AWS CloudWatch. Their work included fixing concurrency issues, refactoring metric calculations, improving unit conversions, and implementing batching for more efficient log pushing. The user also added features like reporting Prometheus metric types and storing the initial value for cumulative metrics to optimize the exporter.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
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