Dylan Lau
SRE at GitLab
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolDylan Lau is an SRE and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently working at GitLab after leading Platform DX engineering at Mercari. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Linux, Java, Go, SQL, and infrastructure automation, with a track record of shipping production services that hardened platforms for compliance and operational scale. At Pivotal he led development of a deployable antivirus database service and built tooling to simplify GCP integration tests, demonstrating a knack for pragmatic automation that reduces toil. Comfortable both coding and managing teams, Dylan combines agile, test-driven practices with platform-minded thinking to improve developer experience and reliability. Based in Osaka and educated at the University of Waterloo in Computer Engineering, he blends international experience with a tendency to tackle infrastructure problems end-to-end—from low-level agents to platform APIs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (59)
github10
circleci10
travis-ci10
terraform10
slack10
golang10
cli10
discord9
stdout9
discordgo8
go-packages8
go8
parsing7
extensible6
emv6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
drlau/dylanlau.io
Jun 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
drlau/tfplanparse
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Go library for parsing stdout from "terraform plan"
Contributions:14 releases, 1 review, 39 commits in 6 months
goparsingstdoutterraform
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