Orange Kao
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Aiven
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolOrange Kao is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Sydney with over a decade of hands-on experience bridging embedded Linux, manufacturing test automation, and cloud operations. He began in firmware and board bring-up, reducing NAND corruption and dramatically cutting test times in manufacturing, and now applies that hardware-rooted troubleshooting mindset to SRE work at Aiven. He is fluent in C/C++ and higher-level languages (Java, Python, Ruby, TypeScript) and comfortable across kernel/uboot tweaks, device interfacing, and AWS Lambda-backed services. Orange uniquely combines oscilloscope-and-logic-analyser diagnostics with cloud reliability practices, making him effective at reproducing and diagnosing issues that span hardware and distributed systems. He has a strong academic background (Master of IT, Macquarie University) and a track record of improving reliability and test coverage in constrained embedded environments. Colleagues know him for reverse-engineering stubborn vendor devices and delivering practical, cross-disciplinary solutions from EVT to production.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Information Engineering, GPA 3.1 (out of 4), Last 60 credit GPA: 3.6, Computer Science and Information Engineering, GPA 3.1 (out of 4), Last 60 credit GPA: 3.6 at Ming Chuan UniversityMaster of IT, GPA 6.16 out of 7 (3.66 out of 4), Master of IT, GPA 6.16 out of 7 (3.66 out of 4) at Macquarie University
english - ielts 7.0 out of 9.0 / pte 86 out of 90, mandarin (spoken language), taiwanese (spoken language), traditional chinese (written language)
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Github Skills (55)
aiven10
postgresql10
digital-signage10
kafka10
sink10
python-client10
backup10
cloud-object-storage10
faust10
armhf9
python9
isbn9
apache-kafka9
raspberry8
apache8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
orange-kao/kafka-python
Jul 2020 - Aug 2024
Python client for Apache Kafka
Contributions:21 pushes, 24 branches in 4 years 1 month
sinkapache-kafkapythonapachepython-client
orange-kao/clipboard
May 2016 - Jul 2018
Ruby access to the clipboard on Windows, Linux, MacOS, Java and Cygwin
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
cygwinlinux-windowsclipboardwindowslinux
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