Summary
Yongqiang Duan is a Senior Engineer specializing in cloud-native data platforms with over 10 years of experience designing and operating real-time streaming pipelines and infrastructure automation. He has built production systems across AWS, GCP, Azure and Kubernetes—implementing Kafka/Flink, Snowflake/BigQuery, and IaC with Terraform/Ansible—while architecting monitoring, security, and CI/CD for high-availability environments. At Xero and Pepperstone he delivered user behavior and risk-management pipelines, combining Golang, Python and serverless patterns to bridge analytics and operational systems. His background spans consultancy and product teams, from end-to-end ML pipeline POCs on GCP Kubeflow to large-scale order management deployments using Consul, Nomad and Vault. Fluent in both software and infra, he often moves between building operators and low-level tooling (KubeBuilder, custom K8s operators) and driving product-facing APIs and data warehouses. Based in Shenzhen and educated at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he balances deep academic training with practical, hands-on delivery across continents.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor computer science, Bachelor computer science at Tianjin University
Ph.D computer science, Ph.D computer science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese