Yi Chia
Software Engineer at Not Yet Public
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarYi Chia is a software engineer with nine years of experience building reliable cloud-native systems from Mountain View, California. He brings strong DevOps and backend expertise, demonstrated through contributions to Google’s Agones project where he implemented Terraform-driven autoscaling and regional GKE cluster creation, split controller/extensions binaries, and added leader election and readiness/metrics improvements to boost scalability and reliability. Comfortable working at the infrastructure level, he focuses on production readiness and operational resilience in distributed systems. Known for practical, incremental improvements that reduce operational burden, he blends hands-on implementation with thoughtful system design.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
terraform10
cicd10
gcp10
terraformer10
go10
leader-election10
kubernetes-pods10
dedicated9
autoscaling9
dockers9
docker9
server9
metric9
dedicated-server9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
googleforgames/agones
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Dedicated Game Server Hosting and Scaling for Multiplayer Games on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:124 reviews, 5 commits, 23 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yi's primary contributions focused on enhancing the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the Agones project. They implemented autoscaling nodepool and regional cluster creation using Terraform, improving resource management on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The user also worked on splitting the controller and extensions binaries, including adding leader election for the controller, and implemented metrics for extensions and added a readiness probe, increasing the system's reliability and scalability. Additionally, the user integrated leader election for the controller pods.
golanghostingagonesdedicated-game-serversgames
chiayi/kuberay
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
A toolkit to run Ray applications on Kubernetes
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 258 pushes in 8 months
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