Tony Xu
Principal Engineer at Rubrik
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTony Xu is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering low-latency, highly available distributed systems for e-commerce and financial platforms. He has progressed through senior engineering and leadership roles at Microsoft and Rubrik after foundational systems work at Amazon, Citi, and Morgan Stanley, bringing deep expertise across the full software lifecycle. Tony’s practical experience includes real-time monitoring, multi-tenant service containers (with a related patent from his Amazon work), and cloud-native Kubernetes provisioning contributions visible in Azure/AgentBaker. He excels in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments where automation, observability, and resilience are paramount. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he combines hands-on DevOps/infra automation with strategic architectural leadership to reliably ship complex, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Nanjing UniversityLinchuan yizhong
Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
bash10
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
osdev9
cloud-init9
macos9
agent9
docker9
vhd8
vhdx8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/AgentBaker
Feb 2020 - May 2021
Agent Baker is aiming to provide a centralized, portable k8s agent node provisioning lib as well as rich support on different OS image with optimized k8s binaries.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:653 reviews, 380 commits, 485 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tony primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the `azure/agentbaker` repository, focusing on setting up and configuring Kubernetes agent nodes. Their commits involve the creation of a cloud-init configuration file, modification of the cse_config.sh script, and interaction with systemd services, demonstrating a focus on automation and deployment. They've also updated various scripts and files related to the custom script extension (CSE), highlighting involvement in the agent provisioning process.
provisioningvhdagentcloud-initaiming
xuto2/aks-engine
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
AKS Engine: Units of Kubernetes on Azure!
Contributions:11 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year 7 months
aks-engineunitskubernetesazureaks
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.