Samuel Yuan
Software Engineer at Google
Beijing, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Yuan is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable systems, currently at Google in Beijing. He blends strong backend and DevOps skills, evidenced by hands-on contributions to CI/CD and Prometheus integration for the Kepler energy-monitoring project that uses eBPF and ML to estimate workload power. A former founder and multiple-time intern at top-tier firms (Facebook, Diffbot, IBM), he brings both startup grit and large-scale production discipline. His University of Waterloo computer science background anchors a pattern of shipping reliable infrastructure and automation. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and quietly ambitious, with a penchant for improving developer workflows. His GitHub motto—"NO DAY SHALL ERASE YOU FROM THE MEMORY OF TIME"—hints at an engineer who values lasting impact over quick fixes.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B. Math Computer Science, B. Math Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
prometheus10
githubaction-workflow10
ci-cd-pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
prometheus-exporter9
bash9
docker8
dockers8
cloud-native7
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
sustainable-computing-io/kepler
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) uses eBPF to probe performance counters and other system stats, use ML models to estimate workload energy consumption based on these stats, and exports them as Prometheus metrics
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:372 reviews, 47 commits, 274 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the Continuous Integration (CI) process, including setting up unit and integration tests using GitHub Actions. They added and configured Prometheus operator as part of the CI pipeline. The user also enhanced the integration tests to include deployment checks and push action improvements, and they worked on improving the general CI/CD workflow.
energy-consumptionprobeexportsprometheus-metricsenergy-monitor
hyperledger/fabric-admin-sdk
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Hyperledger Fabric admin SDK
Contributions:116 reviews, 49 commits, 103 PRs in 6 months
minecraftfabric-sdkfabricadminsdk
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