Kai L.
Site Reliability and Platform Engineering @ Yahoo
- Role
- Software Engineer - Sre Production Eng at Yahoo
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kai L.
Hi! My name is Kai, and I am a software engineer (specializing in Site Reliability and Infra/Platform Engineering) at Yahoo. I am currently using Python and Go to automate AWS and on-prem work at my current role, along with your typical on-call SRE work. I also use Javascript and Python for integrations between different operations tools and platforms, along with dashboard creation in React.js. I am working to improve my grasp of Kubernetes/OpenShift, idiomatic Go, and Ansible/Chef automation, along with various AWS skillsets. Spend most of my time building pipeline automation for self-healing distributed systems.
Experience
Software Engineer - Sre Production Eng
Mar 2022 — Present
SRE on the Search & Advertising Products Team (Gemini) at Yahoo. Currently focused on automation and auto-triage work, centered around deployment pipelines and self healing systems.Responsbilties include incident response and management. Deep triage during on-call work helps inform my automation when writing new monitoring and telementary scripts in Python and Go, along with adapting Scala and Perl code when necessary in legacy search and ads systems.Building dashboards and alerts for monitoring with internal tools (YAMAS) and open-source systems like OpenTelemetry. Integrating new automation with Rootly, ServiceNow, OpsGenie and Moogsoft APIs.As a dev-centric SRE, I am building out internal integrations between Slack, OpsGenie, Jira, Moogsoft, and other monitoring tools to automate away tedious on-call tasks (handoff reporting, change ticketing), and helping build self-healing infra (internal Halo project). This is helping increase SRE and PE project time by 50 percent, allowing for a virtuous cycle of even more automation in the future. Currently helping transition our on-prem servers to AWS, Kubernetes and Openshift in the future, managed with Ansible, Cloudformation, and Hashicorp tooling.
Education
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Bachelor's degree, IR (Major) / Computer Science (senior seminars and thesis)
2012 — 2016
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