Yahong Gu
Sr Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYahong Gu is a senior software development engineer and seasoned technology leader with over 17 years of full-lifecycle software design and 7+ years building SaaS on AWS, currently driving work at Amazon after serving as VP of Engineering at Giant Oak. He combines hands-on engineering—designing high-throughput data pipelines, real-time scrapers, and auto-throttling ingest services—with people leadership and recruiting experience across continuous delivery environments. Yahong has built systems that process terabytes and millions of web pages daily using Glue, Lambda, EKS and Spot Instances, and has a track record of securing and scaling APIs with OAuth2, API Gateway and Cognito. Comfortable spanning DevOps, backend services, and data architecture, he mentors teams to deliver reliable, production-grade platforms that analyze streaming social and session data. Based in Virginia, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with senior leadership experience and a persistent focus on operational efficiency and security.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Chinese, English
Github Skills (74)
statsd10
counter10
graphite9
daemon9
nodejs9
javascript8
golang6
azure-virtual-machine6
relational-databases5
ansible5
operation5
java5
rds5
monitoring4
collectd4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
metricly/heapster
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Compute Resource Usage Analysis and Monitoring of Container Clusters
Contributions:26 PRs, 48 pushes, 25 branches in 3 months
containersclustersdockerkubernetescompute
Netuitive/Diamond
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes in 26 days
memorypythonprometheusdiamondmonitoring
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