Yang Lei
Software Engineer at Confluent
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Lei is a seasoned software engineer and cloud architect with 11 years in the industry, currently building multi-cloud Kafka-as-a-Service and Confluent platform capabilities. Her career spans deep hands-on work in cloud, streaming, big data, and orchestration technologies, with roles ranging from core persistence and web-scale benchmarking to strategic cloud architecture. She combines a maker’s focus—shipping practical solutions that improve life—with a talent for simplifying complexity through innovation and automation. Yang has driven projects across ML, Spark/Flink, Kubernetes/Mesos, CI/CD and event-driven systems, and holds multiple patents and an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. She’s also a committed builder of teams and academic partnerships, advising university projects and speaking on cloud and analytics topics. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic technical leader who quietly elevates product and people while tackling large-scale distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Technology, BS, Computer Science and Technology at Peking University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (117)
rest-services10
sink10
aws-s310
cloudant10
kafka-connect10
amazon10
confluent10
kafka-connector10
aws10
confluent-cloud10
jackson9
api9
amazon-s39
confluent-kafka9
kafka9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yanglei99/kubernetes_ibmcloud
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
yanglei99/acmeair-nodejs
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 19 pushes in 1 year 11 months
cloudantmongodbintegration-servicesdockerair
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