Dat Tang
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at GitLab
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDat Tang is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud-native platforms across Europe and beyond. Currently at GitLab after leading global Kubernetes infrastructure at Shopify (~15,000 VMs on GCP), he specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and automating resilient CI/CD for high-traffic events. He has a proven record of improving platform health and reducing incidents—doubling health indicators and cutting incidents by 40% at Cognigy—and delivered near-zero-downtime data migrations and custom autoscalers in Go. Comfortable in multi-cloud and hybrid environments, he has modernized platforms for customers as a cloud consultant and written operators and infra tooling to speed developer workflows. Beyond ops, Dat’s background includes security-focused cyber-range automation from his research days and hands-on systems engineering at ISPs, giving him a rare blend of troubleshooting depth and platform design. Based in Hanover, Germany, he brings pragmatic ownership of planetary-scale infrastructure and a knack for turning complex reliability requirements into automated, maintainable systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Management Information Systems and Services, Master's degree, Management Information Systems and Services at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyChu Van An National High SchoolBachelor's degree, Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Engineering and Technology, Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Engineering and Technology at Vietnam National University, Hanoi
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (140)
integrity10
scanner9
opentofu9
charts9
postgres-operator9
helm9
cli9
developer-tools9
google-cloud-platform9
signature-verification9
authentication9
terraform9
rancher9
operator9
gitlab-api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
caiconkhicon/vodafone-station-restart
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 review, 3 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 9 months
caiconkhicon/retirement-planning-calculator
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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