Yifeng Gao
Technical Operations Team Lead
Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolYifeng Gao is a Technical Operations Team Lead with 10 years of hands-on experience managing and optimizing mission-critical brokerage and telecom systems, currently leading a six-person team at Interactive Brokers from Greenwich, CT. He combines deep Linux administration and data center expertise with practical Python and shell scripting to build automation, monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), and testing tools that improve system reliability and performance. His background spans real-time trading operations, release verification, and cross-team escalation, giving him a rare blend of operational rigor and software-driven problem solving. Known for hiring and coaching engineers, he translates performance analysis into actionable optimization plans and concise executive reporting. A Master’s in Telecommunications and early work on proprietary UNIX telecom services hint at a strong systems-thinking foundation that informs his approach to observability and automation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Communications Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Communications Engineering at Donghua UniversityThe University of Maryland, College Park
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
pip6
textblob6
csv6
xvfb6
openssl6
python6
regex6
ubuntu6
Github contributions (5)
michaelgao007/gCalendar
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
michaelgao007/DevOpsCertificationProjectFinal
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:40 pushes in 1 day
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