Tommy Lau
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Lau is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 11 years of experience building large-scale, production-grade systems across cloud and Internet companies, currently at Oracle after senior engineering roles at AWS and Amazon. He brings deep systems and backend expertise in Java, C++, Perl and the Spring Framework, with a strong foundation from an MSc in Information Technology Management. His background spans media streaming and peer-to-peer video research to warehouse and customer-service platforms, reflecting an ability to translate research and domain needs into robust operational services. Tommy also contributes practical DevOps work—publishing a Dockerized OpenConnect VPN server with automated certificate handling and networking setup—showing attention to deployment readiness and infrastructure automation. He pairs hands-on coding with architectural thinking, often improving operational resilience and developer productivity in complex, distributed environments.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) CollegeHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
25reputation
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1answer
4questions
Github Skills (19)
docker10
vpn10
scripting10
openconnect10
dockers10
script10
sh10
shell10
certificate-generation10
network-configuration9
iptables9
system-administration9
githubaction-workflow6
integer6
flatten6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TommyLau/docker-ocserv
Feb 2015 - Nov 2018
Docker OpenConnect VPN Server
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:66 commits, 10 PRs, 56 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tommy focused on setting up and configuring a Docker-based OpenConnect VPN server. They implemented the initial configuration file and service setup, and subsequently modified the entry point script to handle environment variables and certificate generation. Furthermore, the user added NAT forwarding and TUN device setup, and refined the certificate generation and test user creation within the Docker container. These changes improved the container's deployment readiness.
openconnectvpndockervpn-server
TommyLau/tommylau.github.com
Jan 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:241 pushes in 10 years 2 months
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