Nyalia Lui
Self Employed at Nyalia's Software Solutions
Topeka, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNyalia Lui is a software engineer with a decade of experience building developer-facing tools and production systems, currently running a self-employed software consultancy from Topeka, Kansas. She has deep C++ and systems expertise—four years crafting software instrumentation and two years contributing to the high-performance Redpanda streaming platform where she improved backend test suites, S3 integration tests, and client-side stability for a Kafka-compatible 10x faster alternative. As CTO at NUDEST she led full-stack integrations (Shopify, Heroku) and shipped a front-end/back-end product that became the prototype behind a patented makeup-matching technology. Her academic research at IUPUI fused dynamic binary instrumentation with middleware patterns to monitor distributed systems in real time, informing her pragmatic approach to observability and testing. Nyalia combines research-grade systems thinking with startup product delivery, making her comfortable moving between low-level C++ work and pragmatic API-driven integrations.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Morehouse CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at Indiana University Indianapolis
English
Github Skills (5)
kafka10
backend10
schema9
go8
python7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1329 reviews, 158 commits, 234 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:The user, "ducky", primarily contributed to the test suite and backend infrastructure of the Redpanda streaming data platform. Their work involved creating new tests for S3 integration, consumer group management, and consumer group recovery scenarios. They also improved existing tests to address code-related errors, enhance testing accuracy and reliability, and added basic authentication tests for Redpanda and Schema Registry endpoints.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
NyaliaLui/redpanda
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Redpanda is the real-time engine for modern apps. Kafka API Compatible; 10x faster. See more at vectorized.io/redpanda
Contributions:137 pushes, 49 branches in 9 months
kafka-apiapi10xvectorizedfaster
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