Sunny Qi is a software engineer with nine years of experience and a strong full-stack background, currently building production systems at Google after a series of internships across major tech and finance firms. He focuses on reliable, observable back-end services—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile GoogleCloudPlatform/bank-of-anthos project where he standardized logging, added OpenTelemetry tracing, and refactored JWT verification. A Georgia Tech computer science graduate, Sunny combines practical engineering with attention to telemetry and testability, helping teams ship maintainable cloud-native applications. Based in New York, he brings both startup-style agility from internships and enterprise-grade rigor from his current role.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Georgia Institute of Technology
Retail banking sample application showcasing Kubernetes and Google Cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 17 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sunny primarily contributed to adding and standardizing logging across multiple services within the application, including the contacts, userservice, and frontend services. They implemented logging configurations, log messages, and utilized environment variables for log level control. Additionally, the user added tracing instrumentation to the services, integrating OpenTelemetry for Cloud Trace and implementing autoinstrumentation for Flask, Jinja2, requests and SQLAlchemy, demonstrating a focus on observability. Further contributions included refactoring the JWT verifier and adding tests for the balance reader controller.
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