Summary
Gavin Y is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience and six years focused on building large-scale, observable data platforms and real-time analytics. He has designed and operated PB-scale ingestion stacks—Kafka, Spark, ClickHouse—on Kubernetes/EKS with GitOps, OpenTelemetry, schema-as-API contracts, and unified auth to keep SLOs steady and on-call BLAND. His background spans cloud and distributed systems at Amazon/AWS, blockchain analytics at Amberdata, and ledger-based data sharing at Vendia, blending production rigor with pragmatic simplicity. Gavin favors simple-by-default designs that make complex telemetry and analytics reliable, and he brings deep experience tying security-conscious auth (OAuth2/OIDC, AWS SigV4) into high-throughput pipelines. Based in Bellevue, WA, he pairs advanced degrees in data mining and information systems with a track record of operationalizing analytics at scale.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information Systems, MS Information Systems at New York University
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Xi'an Jiaotong University
MS Data Mining, MS Data Mining at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology