Yulong Ruan
Senior FEE, OpenSearch at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolYulong Ruan is a senior front-end engineer with 12 years of software development experience, currently at AWS working on OpenSearch after leading frontend architecture and web-infra teams at AlphaSense. He specializes in modern JavaScript stacks—React, TypeScript and GraphQL—and has driven company-wide transitions, built core search UI features, and maintained internal component libraries. Yulong combines hands-on engineering with architecture ownership, improving scalability, developer experience, and cross-team practices. An enthusiastic open-source contributor, he authored the reapex state-management library used in production and candidly summarizes his philosophy as "What I cannot create, I do not understand." Based in Shanghai, he blends a technical CS background with an MS in Service Design and Engineering, giving him a practical eye for both developer tooling and product-facing UX.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Service Design and Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Service Design and Engineering at Aalto UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
English, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
memoized-selectors10
indices10
todoist10
cucumber10
react-wrapper10
webdriverio10
visualization10
sublime10
role-based10
html-webpack-plugin10
coc-nvim10
opensearch-dashboards10
todomvc10
graphql-schema10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ruanyl/generator-simple-module
Oct 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
ReapexJS/reapex-module-dataloader
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 26 commits, 5 PRs in 7 months
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