Oliver Yang
Director Of Software Engineering at Alibaba Cloud
Beijing, China
Summary
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SeniorOliver Yang is a Director of Software Engineering at Alibaba Cloud with 12+ years of deep systems experience and a two-decade-long track record in kernel and storage engineering. He is a Linux/Unix kernel expert who has written over 20,000 lines of kernel modules and specializes in system performance tuning across network, storage, and kernel domains. His background spans major industry players—Sun, Oracle, EMC, Huawei—and he now shapes cloud and virtualization infrastructure at scale. Oliver contributes to prominent open-source tooling like irqbalance, improving interrupt balancing for high-speed PCIe devices and addressing real-world device-spec inconsistencies. Known for combining hands-on low-level engineering with Agile/open-source leadership, he brings rare expertise in x86/PCIe, VM/container technologies, and data protection solutions. Based in Beijing, he pairs technical depth with strong communication and cross-team coaching to turn complex performance challenges into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
system-programming10
interrupt-handling10
c1110
c1710
interrupt10
linux-distribution9
linux9
kernel-module9
sys9
operating-system9
system9
cpu-architecture8
cpu8
linux-device-driver6
linux-kernel6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Irqbalance/irqbalance
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
The irqbalance source tree - The new official site for irqbalance
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer / Systems EngineerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily focused on improving the interrupt balancing functionality of the `irqbalance` tool. Their contributions included modifying the classification of PCI devices based on their sub-class codes, to enhance performance, especially for high-speed devices like Fiber Channel and InfiniBand. They updated the code to align with the latest PCI class code specifications and implemented workarounds for devices that didn't adhere to these specs. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to sysfs entries to ensure proper classification.
cpuirqbalance
yangoliver/mytools
Jun 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 45 pushes, 17 comments in 2 years 9 months
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