Ryan Siu
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Siu is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating resilient production systems across North America and Hong Kong, now at Google. He blends hands-on SRE work with DevOps advocacy, focusing less on feature development and more on observability, reliability, and operational tooling. His open-source contributions include improving telemetry middleware and retry behavior for the popular Elixir HTTP client Tesla, reflecting a knack for practical observability improvements. With an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a background in physics and CS, he brings analytical rigor to large-scale system design and incident prevention. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers solving hard operational problems and making systems quietly dependable rather than chasing new features.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Japanese, French, Chinese, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
962reputation
56kreached
33answers
1question
kubernetes
top-5%
Github Skills (16)
http-client10
middleware10
telemetry10
elixir10
testing10
exunit9
kubernetes9
kubernetes-helm6
cron6
google-kubernetes-engine6
minikube6
docker6
ingress-nginx6
google-cloud-platform6
vmware6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-tesla/tesla
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
The flexible HTTP client library for Elixir, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 13 PRs, 25 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on adding and improving telemetry features within the Elixir-based Tesla HTTP client library. Their contributions included implementing a telemetry middleware, adding optional dependencies, and updating documentation. The user refactored the telemetry implementation, including data structure updates, API changes, and unit test improvements. Further contributions include modifications and improvements to the retry middleware.
ibrowsehackneyhttp-clientclient-libraryelixir
RyanSiu1995/gcb-visualizer
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
Cloudbuild pipeline visualizer with graphviz
Contributions:5 releases, 88 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 7 months
gcpgoogle-cloud-buildpipelinevisualizercytoscapejs
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