Tong Liu
Engineering Manager at Stripe
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTong Liu is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems and cloud networking platforms. Currently at Stripe, he leads development of scalable, secure public-cloud compute infrastructure and previously helmed multi-team efforts at VMware to deliver enterprise Kubernetes networking, ingress, and load-balancing solutions. He combines hands-on engineering—contributions to open-source projects like OVN Kubernetes and OpenStack Tempest—with leadership of cross-functional teams to ship robust, highly available network services. His background bridges deep research (a PhD in electrical and computer engineering) and practical systems work, from Smart Grid communication systems to cloud-native networking at scale. Notably, he has driven subtle but impactful improvements in test automation and network policy correctness that boost reliability across large cloud deployments.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityPhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University
Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
python10
sdn10
net10
kubernetes-networking10
networking10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
test-automation10
cni9
automation9
api-testing9
automations9
refactoring8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
A robust Kubernetes networking platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 59 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tong primarily contributed to the OVN Kubernetes project by implementing features and addressing issues related to network policy and Kubernetes resource synchronization with the OVN backend. This includes adding support for IPBlock policies, ensuring proper syncing of pods, network policies, and namespaces, and incorporating HA support through rebuilding the OVN database upon master node failover. They also addressed minor issues like a network policy typo. The user's work focused on the core functionality and operational aspects of the Kubernetes networking platform.
k8skubernetesovncnicni-plugin
openstack/tempest
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
OpenStack Testing (Tempest) of an existing cloud. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Tong primarily contributed to the `tempest` repository, focused on improving the quality and reliability of the OpenStack testing framework. Their work involved fixing bugs related to DHCP configuration in external networks, correcting ICMP protocol settings in security group rules, removing unused code and redundant definitions, and enhancing existing test cases. Furthermore, the user updated the microversion documentation and refactored test class names for consistency, demonstrating their involvement in both functional testing and code maintainability.
testingcloud-foundryinfrastructurecloudopendev
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