KEVIN JING QIU

Senior Software Engineer / Principal Engineer, SoundHound

September 2018 - Present

Kubernetes, Observability, Microservices, Cloud-Native

HIGHLIGHTS

• introduced kubernetes (AKS/GKE) as a cloud deployment platform for houndify microservices
• * use terraform for provisioning infrastructure
• * helm/helmfile for kube configuration management
• * use hashicorp vault as a central repo for app secrets
• built dev tools for integrating services with kubernetes locally
• * on top of minikube/kind/k3d
• built microservices for 3rd party integration
• provided feedback on designs of various projects
• * encryption/decryption library/service
• * frontend proxy rewrite and service discovery
• introduced golang project standards
• * library for common metrics, telemetry and versioning
• * release pipeline using goreleaser
• * gitlab CI/CD job generation using dhall
• introduced opentracing/opentelemetry
• * integrated in the stack using jaeger
• built kafka consumers for collecting metrics to populate observability dashboards
• * built a custom grafana datasource to aggregate and expose metrics on a high level to business stakeholders (golang)
• * rewrote and maintained a service for debugging text/voice query
• interviewed candidates for both the distributed systems team and SRE team

Site Reliability Engineer, Points International

June 2016 - September 2018

Dev Tools, Continuous Integration, Kubernetes, Performance, Data Services

HIGHLIGHTS

• Building an internal PAAS to aid teams to deploy their microservices to the Kubernetes cluster (nodejs/postgresql)
• Built monitoring/alerting/dashboarding infrastructure around Prometheus federation and Grafana
• Implemented Points Kubernetes cluster on AWS and later migrated to On-Prem
• Developed tooling for implementing filtered replication for CouchDB to reduce disk space usage
• Started to implement tracing of LCP/BGT microservice stack using opentracing/Jaeger
• Built a clustered load testing environment based on Locust
• Developed tooling around building AMIs and deploying to a tiered VPC

Senior Development Engineer (Python), Points International

June 2015 - June 2016

Worked on microservices and the supporting infrastructure that power the Points' new generation Loyalty Commerce Platform

HIGHLIGHTS

• Performance profiling and analysis using locust, newrelic and flood.io
• Implemented new features for the Points Buy/Gift/Transfer/Orders/Reporting microservices for the loyalty commerce platform
• Built tooling based on docker-compose to provide devs with a way to develop / test Points BGT/LCP stack locally and on CI
• Built tooling that consolidates development and deployment for Python-based microservices

Software Developer, FreshBooks

November 2010 - May 2015

Being an integral part of many backend services at FreshBooks

HIGHLIGHTS

• Developer and Component Owner of the RESTful web service that's the business logic layer powering various FreshBooks front-ends
• Facilitated delayed-retry of payment events using rabbitmq dead-letter exchange
• Developed RESTful web service for FreshBooks payment feature (both ACH and credit card payments)
• Developed a journal entry system that's the accounting layer for FreshBooks entities (invoices/payments/credits)
• Coached and onboarded new developers

Software Developer, CaseWare International

June 2008 - November 2010

HIGHLIGHTS

• Designed and implemented client side application framework using Model-View-Presenter pattern in GWT
• Wrote and open sourced an ExtGWT plugin
• Developed code review guideline

Technical Consultant (Co-op), Toyota Canada

April 2006 - April 2007

HIGHLIGHTS

• Designed and implemented an automated black-box testing solution which helped to test automatically the availability of Toyota's online business intelligence application
• Helped Toyota's mainframe supporting staff in developing a reporting facility on mainframe health check logs

Junior Programmer, Matrix Research Limited

May 2004 - June 2005

Contributor, Various Open Source Projects

June 2009 - Present

HIGHLIGHTS

• kubernetes/charts
• containous/traefik
• kubernetes-incubator/kubespray
• churchio/onebody
• raveljs/ravel
• opentracing/opentracing-python
• opentracing-contrib/python-flask
• kubernetes-incubator/external-dns
• djc/couchdb-python
• fabric/fabric
• jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit
• florinapp/florinapp
• kevinjqiu/cdbcli
• kevinjqiu/phantomail
• roboll/helmfile