Eric Yan
Senior Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolEric Yan is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in database infrastructure and site reliability with over 12 years of experience, currently scaling and managing some of the largest MySQL deployments at GitHub. He combines strong systems engineering with infrastructure automation expertise, writing production-grade tooling in Go, Python, and Ruby. Based in Amsterdam, he focuses on reliability, performance, and operability for large-scale database fleets. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation that reduces toil and improves uptime across complex distributed systems. His career blends a liberal arts education with deep technical curiosity—his GitHub bio, "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious," reflects a continual drive to learn and iterate on infrastructure challenges.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences (Liberal Learning Program), Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences (Liberal Learning Program) at Sun Yat-Sen University
English, Chinese, Dutch
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Github Skills (52)
mysql10
coredns10
plugin10
schema-migrations10
letsencrypt9
security9
acme9
dns9
parsing9
certificate9
go9
service-discovery9
docker8
translation7
mysql-server7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ericyan/omnicast
Jan 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:10 pushes in 6 years 2 months
ericyan/i3de
Jan 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:95 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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