Yuki Sawa
Engineering Manager at Tinder
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarYuki Sawa is an engineering manager with 11 years building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently leading Envoy service mesh, Kubernetes, backend and mobile CI/CD efforts at Tinder. Comfortable coding in Go, Python and JavaScript, Yuki focuses on reliable production systems on AWS using Kubernetes, Serverless, Spinnaker, Docker and Envoy. He brings hands-on contributor experience to prominent open-source projects like envoyproxy/ratelimit, where he improved backend logic, modernized configs, removed legacy APIs and added quality gates. Known for combining people management with deep technical ownership, he coaches teams through complex migrations and runtime configuration challenges. Based in the Los Angeles area, Yuki also speaks publicly about cloud infrastructure and maintains active GitHub work that surfaces pragmatic fixes rather than experimental prototypes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
grpc10
rate-limiting10
configuration-management10
go10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/ratelimit
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Go/gRPC service designed to enable generic rate limit scenarios from different types of applications.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 10 commits, 67 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Yuki primarily contributed to the backend logic and configuration of the rate limiting service. Their work included updating dependencies, introducing new configuration options for runtime behavior, and fixing flaky tests within the integration test suite. They also refactored the service to remove support for legacy APIs and added pre-commit linters for code quality and formatting.
golangrpcrate-limitetcdgrpc
edmunds/shadowreader
May 2018 - Aug 2019
Serverless load testing for replaying website traffic. Powered by AWS Lambda.
Contributions:1 release, 211 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 3 months
lambda-functionsload-testingserverlessaws-lambdatesting
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