Yisheng Chai
Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolYisheng Chai is a seasoned backend software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems and developer tooling across startups and platform companies. Currently at Kong working on AI gateway infrastructure, he has deep hands-on experience in Golang and Rust, contributed to notable open-source projects like casbin-rs (refactoring and dependency upgrades) and led Casbin work during GSoC. His background spans CDN and streaming optimizations, async runtimes and FFI for LLGo, Kubernetes infra, and observability, with measurable performance wins (e.g., 15%+ improvements and reduced crashes via lock-free mechanisms). Comfortable across systems, networking, and security, he also mentors OSS contributors and combines low-level systems thinking with pragmatic production engineering. An interesting detail: he pairs compiler/runtime work (IO_uring-based async FS) with cloud infra tasks, showing both deep systems chops and platform-scale execution.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shenyang Ligong UniversityBachelor's degree, Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Automation, Bachelor's degree, Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Automation at Chongqing University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (9)
access-control10
authorizations10
rust10
refactoring10
authorization10
io9
dependency-management8
casbin8
acl7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
apache/casbin-rs
Apr 2020 - May 2022
An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 49 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Yisheng primarily focused on refactoring and upgrading dependencies within the Casbin-rs project, an authorization library. Key contributions include modifying code to use `Vec<String>` instead of `Vec<&str>`, fixing clippy errors, and upgrading the tokio dependency. Additionally, the user made several minor code adjustments and merged branches to maintain the project's stability and incorporate updates. These efforts were focused on enhancing the library's functionality and compatibility.
abacaccess-controlauthorizationrbacrust
NovaLock/pi-controller
Jul 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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