Yi Yu
Summary
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SeniorYi Y is a DevOps SRE with a decade of experience building resilient, automated infrastructure across major tech firms including Meta, Thought Machine, and now Citadel. He specialises in observability, disaster recovery, and platform automation, having helped found Meta’s Unified Site Degradation program and presented on service degradation at scale. Comfortable across cloud and bare-metal environments (OCI, AWS, SoftLayer, Aliyun, OpenStack, VMware), he pairs deep systems knowledge with scripting and automation in Python, Bash and configuration management tools. Yi’s background includes a PhD on energy awareness in ICT, reflecting a long-standing focus on efficient, practical engineering rather than theoretical solutions. He has a track record of turning operational pain points into productivity wins—from temporary DB access tooling to capacity-planning systems—and thrives on solving large-scale resilience problems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (39)
gcode10
inkscape10
omxplayer9
precompiled8
userspace8
python-lib8
mysql7
monitoring7
bootloader7
iptables7
wifi7
kernel6
elasticsearch6
data-visualization6
crowdin6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yy502/motion-detection
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
Detect motion in a movie file
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes in 3 years 6 months
detectmotionmovie
yy502/laserpecker
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:323 commits, 335 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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