Cara Yao
Summary
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RockstarQiyue Yao is a software engineer with 7 years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems, now at Google after a multi-year stint at VMware focused on Kubernetes CNI (Antrea) and cloud management automation. She has deep hands-on experience in Go, Java, and container networking, and is notable for designing and implementing audit logging for Kubernetes ClusterNetworkPolicy and enhancing Open vSwitch packet processing to improve flow visibility. Her contributions to the popular Antrea project include audit log deduplication, richer log formats with rule and port details, and comprehensive unit tests—demonstrating a focus on observability and maintainability in networking code. A UCLA MS graduate with prior internships across SAP and startups, she pairs backend systems expertise with practical full-stack problem solving and a penchant for turning complex network policy behavior into auditable, testable features.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
go10
audit-logging10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
cnc9
openvswitch9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
antrea-io/antrea
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Kubernetes networking based on Open vSwitch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:375 reviews, 15 commits, 59 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Cara contributed significantly to the Antrea project, focusing on implementing and enhancing audit logging capabilities for network policies. Their work included adding audit logging features for both ClusterNetworkPolicy and K8s NetworkPolicy, which involved modifications to existing code and the addition of new logging structures. They also addressed deduplication issues and added unit tests to ensure the proper functioning of the audit logging features. Furthermore, they improved the logging format by including rule names and port information, contributing to the overall maintainability and functionality of the project.
kubernetes-networkingopenvswitchkubernetescnicncf
qiyueyao/antrea
Aug 2020 - Jan 2026
Kubernetes networking based on Open vSwitch
Contributions:8 PRs, 521 pushes, 122 branches in 5 years 6 months
openflowkubernetes-networkingnetworkingbgpvirtual-network
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