Sunny Yip
Principal Engineer at Kusari
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSunny Yip is a Principal Engineer based in the New York City area with a 15+ year track record of designing and operating large-scale platform, cloud, and security systems across finance and enterprise environments. He has led transformation initiatives at Morgan Stanley, MUFG, and Tradeweb—driving DevSecOps, CI/CD, container orchestration, and secure cloud landing zones that reduced costs and accelerated cloud adoption. At Morgan Stanley he rebuilt web hosting platforms and integrated CDN and vendor relationships, later expanding into PaaS to enable firm-wide DevOps practices. Currently at Kusari he continues to blend hands-on engineering with strategic platform leadership, focusing on resilient, scalable infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who translates regulatory and security constraints into practical, auditable solutions. His career roots in datacenter operations and security give him a rare combination of low-level operational toughness and high-level architecture fluency.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Science, Diploma Computer Science at Chu Hai CollegeBachelor of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, School of Engineering
Github Skills (45)
vulnerability-management10
cyclonedx10
vex10
vulnerability10
supply-chain-security10
graph10
sbom10
metadata10
graph-database10
security10
spdx10
aggregates10
database9
visualization7
verify7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sunnyyip/guac
Mar 2023 - May 2024
GUAC aggregates software security metadata into a high fidelity graph database.
Contributions:7 releases, 31 PRs, 297 pushes in 1 year 2 months
sunnyyip/helm-charts
Mar 2023 - Jul 2024
Helm Chart for deploying GUAC
Contributions:3 PRs, 175 pushes, 35 branches in 1 year 4 months
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