Yi L
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi L is a Senior Software Engineer based in Salt Lake City with a focus on cloud-native security and vulnerabilities management, bringing about five years of experience in ads tech and Kubernetes-driven platforms. Currently at Red Hat after advancing from Software Engineer II, Yi builds enterprise-grade supply chain security features and contributes to runtime and image-scanning capabilities. Proficient in Go, Kubernetes, and CVE workflows, Yi has made notable open-source contributions to the widely used StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform, improving image integration, cluster security, and Istio scanning pipelines. Prior roles at Amobee and an internship at AWS reflect a steady progression from application engineering to security-focused backend development. With an MS in Computer Science from Boston University and hands-on research experience from the University of Utah, Yi combines academic rigor with production-scale systems thinking. Beyond code, Yi’s work emphasizes automating detection and remediation to reduce operational risk in large container environments.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Boston University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
security10
kubernetes10
container10
go10
postgresql10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
docker8
dockers8
cicd7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:468 reviews, 8 commits, 215 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yi primarily worked on implementing and modifying features related to image integration, cluster security, and CVE management. Their contributions involved modifying search services, adding functionalities for auto-deleting image integrations, and updating Istio scanning pipelines. Furthermore, they introduced new test cases, optimized code, and improved the overall performance, indicating a strong focus on enhancing security and functionality within the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform.
containerscheckliststackroxsecurityrisk
daynewlee/claircore-python-osv
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
foundation modules for scanning container packages and reporting vulnerabilities
Contributions:2 PRs, 103 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
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