Yan Cui
Consultant
UK, China
Summary
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RockstarYan Cui is an experienced consultant and independent engineer with 15 years building serverless and cloud-native systems, based in the UK with roots in China. An AWS Serverless Hero, trainer, speaker, and blogger, he blends hands-on development with developer education and community leadership. He focuses on backend and DevOps for serverless architectures, notably enhancing the popular Serverless Framework Step Functions plugin with features like IAM role refinement, intrinsic functions support, and EventBridge integrations. Yan is skilled at turning complex orchestration and permission models into maintainable, production-ready solutions and often shares practical patterns through talks and training. His work demonstrates both deep platform expertise and a knack for improving developer ergonomics in cloud automation.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
step-functions10
aws10
backend10
devops10
ias10
serverless-framework10
eventhub9
aws-eventbridge9
aws-lambda9
eventbus9
infrastructure8
json8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
serverless-operations/serverless-step-functions
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
AWS Step Functions plugin for Serverless Framework ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:58 releases, 4 reviews, 215 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Yan primarily worked on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Serverless Framework plugin for AWS Step Functions. Their contributions include improvements to state machine definition handling, such as pretty-printing JSON, and adding features like support for IAM role overrides and the ability to specify dependencies. They refactored the IAM role generation to include permissions based on the referenced AWS Lambda functions and included event bridge functionality. They also added support for intrinsic functions.
serverlessaws-lambdaaws-step-functionsserverless-pluginstep-functions
fsprojects-archive/zzarchive-Filbert
Aug 2012 - Oct 2014
Contributions:73 commits in 2 years 2 months
serializerrpcbertrpc-client
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