Yuk Chau
Principal Cloud Architect - GenAI, Optum - UHG at ClearBridge Technology Group
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuk Chau is a Principal Cloud Architect and GenAI specialist with 8 years of hands-on experience building serverless, production-grade AI platforms and cloud infrastructure for large enterprises. He combines deep DevOps roots—CI/CD, Terraform, AWS services, and automation—with advanced GenAI work such as RAG, GraphRAG, agentic workflows, prompt engineering, and model evaluation using Bedrock, Langchain, Databricks and more. At AWS Professional Services he led Compliance-as-Code and reusable deployment frameworks, and contributed significant back-end and DevOps enhancements to the widely used awslabs/aws-config-rdk. Known for troubleshooting and standardizing developer workflows, he has migrated applications for FedRAMP/GovCloud compliance and consistently turns research-grade prototypes into secure, scalable production systems. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs an uncommon mix of mathematical finance and multi-disciplinary analytics background with pragmatic engineering to align AI solutions to business risk and cost constraints.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Mathematical Finance, Master of Science (MS) Mathematical Finance at Questrom School of Business, Boston UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Economics at Syracuse University, College of Arts & Sciences
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
aws10
ias10
python10
amazon-web-services10
aws-config10
cli9
command-line9
aws-cloudformation9
command-line-interface9
devops8
terraformer3
terraform3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-config-rdk
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
The AWS Config Rules Development Kit helps developers set up, author and test custom Config rules. It contains scripts to enable AWS Config, create a Config rule and test it with sample ConfigurationItems.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 releases, 24 reviews, 130 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Yuk primarily focused on enhancing the AWS Config Rules Development Kit. Their contributions include adding functionalities to deploy and create custom rules, incorporating new flags for IAM roles and configuration. The user made significant changes to the RDK Python code, incorporating improvements to existing features and addressing deployment related issues. These modifications increased the tool's flexibility and functionality, specifically in cloud infrastructure management.
development-kitruleaws-configset-upamazon-web-services
rickychau2780/aws-config-rdk
Sep 2019 - Apr 2023
The AWS Config Rules Development Kit helps developers set up, author and test custom Config rules. It contains scripts to enable AWS Config, create a Config rule and test it with sample ConfigurationItems.
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 58 pushes in 3 years 7 months
development-kitruleaws-configset-upconfig
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