Yiqi Xu
Staff Engineer at VMware
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiqi Xu is a Staff Engineer based in Palo Alto with over a decade of deep experience in storage systems, parallel I/O, and virtualization, and three years in senior engineering roles at VMware focusing on vSAN and distributed object management. He blends system-level programming expertise—file system implementation, MPI-IO, and QoS-aware storage—with practical product work, from research prototypes to production-grade subsystems. At VMware he has driven backend and DevOps improvements including enhancements to the popular Velero Kubernetes backup project, adding metrics, CLI improvements and garbage-collection refactoring. His background includes academic research on performance virtualization for parallel file systems and early startup experience building bleeding-edge storage tech, giving him both theoretical rigor and hands-on delivery skills. Colleagues rely on him for tackling I/O performance bottlenecks, smoothing complex server-side scheduling, and translating research ideas into maintainable engineering solutions.
3 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Fudan UniversityMaster, Computer Science, 3.91, Master, Computer Science, 3.91 at Florida International University
Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
api-design9
restful-api9
command-line9
cli9
rest-api9
automations9
automation9
command-line-interface9
prometheus9
api-rest9
docker8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
vmware-tanzu/velero
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:70 reviews, 7 commits, 46 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yiqi's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Velero project's functionality and maintainability. They addressed an issue related to excluding namespaces from backups by implementing logic to handle namespaces with exclusion labels. The user also refactored the garbage collection controller using Kubebuilder and added Prometheus metrics to track backup warnings and statuses. Furthermore, the user modified the command-line interface, adapting the "restic" subcommand to "repo" and adding json output to velero backup describe.
velerovolumeskubernetes-applicationspersistent-volumesdata-protection
allenxu404/velero
Aug 2022 - Apr 2024
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
Contributions:280 pushes, 35 branches in 1 year 8 months
velerovolumeskubernetes-applicationspersistent-volumesbosh
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