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Puyu Yang

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer specializing in AI infrastructure and distributed systems

AgScaleDuke UniversityRaleigh, NC7 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks On-Site

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Engineer with hands-on experience shipping production Python integrations and designing for reliability from day one, including idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, contract checks, and full observability. Also brings web automation experience with Puppeteer and has implemented high-availability failover using load balancer liveness checks, backup environments, and cold standby architecture.

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Key Strengths

  • Production-grade integration reliability engineering
  • Strong observability mindset with logs, metrics, traces, and alerting
  • Thoughtful handling of failure modes like duplicates, schema drift, outages, and rate limits
  • High availability and failover architecture design
  • Test strategy across unit, integration, end-to-end, and contract layers
  • Pragmatic web automation using Puppeteer with stability-focused selector and wait strategies
  • Process-driven approach to automating ambiguous manual workflows
  • Edge-case-oriented debugging and hardening
  • Led monolith-to-microservices migration to AKS with cross-region standardization
  • Built unified observability stack (OpenTelemetry + Prometheus/Loki/Tempo + Grafana) with alerting across regions/AZs
  • Delivered 99.9% production uptime and improved incident debugging/resolution via centralized monitoring
  • Implemented DR/failover with standby environment and automated traffic switching based on health checks
  • Automated infrastructure and delivery with Terraform + GitHub Actions, enabling releases in minutes
  • Modernization execution with blue-green deployments, canaries, and staged rollouts to avoid regressions/SLA breaches
  • CTO-facing roadmap ownership: translated ambiguous reliability/scalability goals into phased modernization plan and tradeoffs
  • Built and productionized Kubernetes-native AI agent platform (AgScale) using Go CRDs/controllers with governance, budgets, and SRE-grade reliability controls
  • Operated effectively with minimal oversight across multiple teams/vendors; launched 20+ internal systems in China while adapting to local regulations

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Experience

Founder / Sole DeveloperAgScale · Jan 2026 – Jan 2026freelance
Technical Product Manager, Card Core Platform, Transaction Team (MBA Intern)Capital One · Jan 2025 – Jan 2025internship
Assistant Director & Cloud Team Tech Lead, Global Blockchain TeamEY · Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Infrastructure Assistant ManagerJBS · Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Software EngineerITMETHODS · Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

Education

Duke Universitymaster, Business Administration (Finance & Entrepreneurship Concentration, Quantitative Finance) (2026)
Western Universitymaster, Software Engineering (2018)
Taiyuan University of Technologybachelor, Software Engineering (2016)

Awards

  • R.K. Swartman Scholar
  • R.K. Swartman Scholar - Western University

Languages

English

Certifications

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer ProfessionalAWS Certified Big Data SpecialtyAWS Certified DeveloperAWS Certified DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalAWS Certified Big Data – Specialty

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