Tom Qin
Co-Founder & Chief SRE at LF Edge
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Qin is a co-founder and Chief SRE at Edgenesis with a decade of experience building cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, and reliable distributed systems for education technology. He combines deep Linux, networking, and hardware knowledge with hands-on programming to lead Engineering, Infrastructure, and DevOps teams that prioritize scalability, security, and uptime. Previously he shaped large-scale infrastructure at 21Vianet Blue Cloud and worked across software, network, and IT at Veriflow, bringing production-hardened practices to startups. Tom is an active open-source contributor—his work on Shifu, a Kubernetes-native IoT gateway, spans CRD/Go development and CI/CD improvements—reflecting his full-stack operational mindset. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he also co-chairs the InfiniEdge AI TSC at LF Edge, pushing AI inference to resource-constrained devices at the edge. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who turns complex infrastructure challenges into maintainable, deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
cicd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
docker9
edge-computing9
iot9
cloud-native9
yaml8
opc-ua7
abtest7
testing7
unit-testing7
ab-testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Edgenesis/shifu
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes-native IoT gateway
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:98 releases, 809 reviews, 62 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tom contributed significantly to the Shifu project, a Kubernetes-native IoT gateway. They made changes to the code to fix typos, update dependencies, and add new features like a TelemetryService. They also updated the build process and CI/CD configurations by modifying makefiles and Azure pipelines, improving the project's build and deployment capabilities. The user's work involved both backend (CRD, Go code) and infrastructure (build, CI/CD) aspects of the project.
virtualizationiot-platformindustrial-iotkubernetes-nativeweb-of-things
tomqin93/ChatGPT-Next-Web
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
One-Click to deploy well-designed ChatGPT web UI on Vercel. 一键拥有你自己的 ChatGPT 网页服务。
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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