Rui S
Associate Technical Director
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRui S is an engineering leader and Associate Technical Director with a decade in games engineering and over 20 years in tech, known for restoring and maintaining player-facing services at AAA studios with 99.9% uptime. He bootstrapped Tencent Games’ SRE organization in North America, launched large-scale live services (including Riot Valorant in China) and ran multi‑AZ Kubernetes deployments across SE Asia with zero incidents. At Bethesda and Blizzard he led teams that delivered cross‑data‑center reliability, built internal CDNs and developer platforms, and cut costs and build times through automation and vendor optimization. Rui blends site reliability engineering, production engineering, and multi‑cloud architecture with a developer‑first mindset that prioritizes observability, SLIs/SLOs and live operations. He is also an active back-end contributor to Apache Iceberg, improving Flink streaming upsert and checkpointing behavior—evidence of hands‑on systems work beyond management. Based in Shenzhen, he pairs extreme ownership and mentorship with a pragmatic focus on player experience at planet scale.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
javas10
flink-sql10
apache-flink10
java10
data-engineering10
apache-iceberg10
apache9
testing9
data-serialization8
distributed-systems8
serialization8
build-automation4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/iceberg
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Rui contributed to the Apache Iceberg project by implementing and refining features related to the Flink integration. Their work focused on enhancing the Flink sink, specifically adding support for streaming upsert write options and addressing issues in continuous enumeration within the source code. These contributions involved modifying code related to data distribution, key selection, and state management. Furthermore, the user provided fixes to address parallelism issues and ensure correct state restoration during checkpointing.
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
Reo-LEI/iceberg
Jul 2021 - Feb 2024
Apache Iceberg
Contributions:3 PRs, 122 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 7 months
connectorapache-icebergapachebig-datadatastream
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