Jiawei Huang
Principal Engineer at Tigera
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJiawei Huang is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native networking, IoT, and video systems from the data plane to user-facing web apps. Based in Greater Vancouver, he has progressed through engineering roles at Tigera, GE Digital, Avigilon, Arista, Fortinet and Cisco, delivering production services like Predix industrial cloud agents and hardware-accelerated video analytics. He combines backend and DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to the prominent open-source Calico project fixing context leaks and FIPS-related issues—with front-end maintenance work on Hugo themes, showing full-stack fluency. Known for pragmatic reliability engineering, he pays attention to operational details such as temporary test cleanup and preserving security-critical libraries in container images. His academic background includes an MSc in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University and a BE in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, reflecting a solid systems and signal-processing foundation.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at Zhejiang UniversityMaster of Science, Computing Science, Master of Science, Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
kubernetes-networking10
cni10
dockers10
networking10
go10
font-awesome10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
jquery9
security9
css9
html9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jpescador/hugo-future-imperfect
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
A ported theme with some extras for the Hugo static website engine
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jiawei primarily focused on updating and upgrading various front-end dependencies and libraries used in the Hugo theme. Their contributions included upgrading JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, skel, highlight.js, and incorporating changes related to font-awesome. The user also made changes to the CSS and HTML files, including the use of CDN's to reference the libraries. These updates and modifications indicate an effort to maintain and improve the theme's front-end performance and features.
hugo
projectcalico/calico
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:240 reviews, 12 commits, 334 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jiawei contributed to the Calico project by addressing critical issues related to context management and FIPS compliance within the Go codebase. Their work involved fixing potential context leaks in the client and apiserver components. Furthermore, the user improved the project by ensuring the retention of essential OpenSSL files in the calico-node image to maintain FIPS mode functionality. Additionally, they also implemented a temporary directory cleanup process for UTs to optimize disk space usage.
cloud-nativenetwork-securitynetworkingcnicni-plugin
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