Yongli Chen
Founder & CEO at Forbes Technology Council
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYongli Chen is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience building cloud-native and edge computing solutions, currently leading Edgenesis to democratize IoT through Shifu, a Kubernetes-native IoT development framework. A former Microsoft engineering leader who co-founded Azure Container Networking and scaled core Azure networking and compute services, he blends deep infrastructure expertise with product and business strategy. Yongli is an active open-source contributor—his work on Azure's acs-engine improved Azure CNI integration—and a Kubernetes org member and LF Edge TSC participant focused on making low-latency AI at the edge accessible. Based in Sunnyvale, he bridges enterprise-scale systems engineering with startup execution and has a strong academic foundation from UIUC in computer science and electrical engineering.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
net10
network10
powershell10
kubernetes10
azure10
container10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
go9
cicd4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/acs-engine
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
WE HAVE MOVED: Please join us at Azure/aks-engine!
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:5 commits, 22 PRs, 44 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yongli primarily focused on enabling and configuring Azure CNI (Container Network Interface) within the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) engine. Their contributions involved modifying PowerShell scripts (`kuberneteswindowssetup.ps1`) and Go code (`pkg/api/vlabs/const.go`, `pkg/acsengine/defaults.go`, and `pkg/api/vlabs/validate.go`) to integrate and manage the Azure CNI plugin. They made changes to set default network policies, fix service IP connectivity and remove redundant code related to Azure CNI setup.
azure-aksazure-functionsaks-enginejoinazure
saiyan86/acs-engine
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
Azure Container Service Engine - a place for community to collaborate and build the best open Docker container infrastructure for Azure.
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 10 branches in 8 months
placeservice-containerservice-engineinfrastructurecollaborate
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