Zihao Yu
Engineering Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolZihao Yu is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and leading cloud-native, Kubernetes-first platforms and CI/CD ecosystems for large media and observability organizations. Currently at Datadog after managing Deploy and Release teams at Warner Bros. Discovery, he has driven Kubernetes adoption, CRD-driven deployment controllers, and cross-functional integration with infrastructure and observability teams. His background spans hands-on platform engineering at HBO—where he helped migrate streaming backends to Kubernetes and expanded CI/CD for international deployments—to earlier roles in automated testing and Java/Scala services. A KubeCon 2017 keynote speaker, Zihao pairs technical ownership of repo strategy and deployment tooling with a track record of mentoring and scaling teams in high-demand production environments.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Engineering, Master of Science Computer Engineering at Rutgers University–New BrunswickBachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering at Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zihaoyu/cut-pdf
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
zihaoyu/test-gha-environments
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 6 months
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