Yan Zeng
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Zeng is a Principal Engineer with seven years of progressive software development experience at Amazon and AWS, now based in Bellevue, Washington. He specializes in backend systems and security-focused features, notably contributing authentication, multi-tenancy, and tenant management APIs to the OpenSearch Dashboards security plugin. Yan has driven production-ready integrations for OIDC, JWT, and SAML workflows, demonstrating deep expertise in authentication protocols and scalable backend design. He combines strong academic foundations in computer science (MEng) and electrical engineering with hands-on experience across distributed systems and cloud services. Known for quietly stepping into complex security gaps, he translates ambiguous requirements into auditable, maintainable implementations. Colleagues rely on him to balance rigorous engineering discipline with pragmatic delivery in large-scale environments.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsBachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Shanghai University
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
user-authentication10
opensearch10
authentication10
javascript10
typescripts10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
multi-tenant9
apidoc9
multitenancy9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/security-dashboards-plugin
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
🔐 Manage your internal users, roles, access control, and audit logs from OpenSearch Dashboards
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 104 reviews, 97 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Yan's contributions primarily involve developing the security features within the OpenSearch Dashboards plugin. They implemented and refined the backend logic for authentication, including basic authentication, and introduced OIDC, JWT, and SAML authentication workflows. The user also added multi-tenancy capabilities and APIs for managing tenant information. Their work included significant code changes in routes, authentication types, and backend client interactions.
opensearch-pluginsinternalauditdashboardsopensearch-dashboards
zengyan-amazon/security-kibana-plugin-1
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Open Distro for Elasticsearch Security Kibana Plugin
Contributions:189 pushes, 147 branches in 10 months
elasticsearch-securitysecuritykibana-pluginkibanadistro
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