About

Sirui Tan is a highly skilled software engineer with over 6 years of relevant experience. Currently, he is a member of Yelp's infrastructure team, where he is building Yelp's native Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) computing platform. In this role, he has helped migrate Yelp's stateless microservices from Mesos to Kubernetes and drove the migration of Yelp's Spark infrastructure from Mesos to Kubernetes. Additionally, he has worked on Yelp's product team, where he was responsible for building and maintaining Yelp's food ordering platform. Notably, Sirui was the primary backend developer of the new checkout flow for Yelp's food ordering platform, which is based on AWS Step Function (SFN). He also built the backend for pre-order functionality of Yelp's food ordering platform, which increased total food orders by 30%. Prior to Yelp, Sirui worked as a software engineer at Red Hat, where he was responsible for developing the backend for Ansible Tower, the enterprise version of the well-known configuration management tool Ansible. He also built the OAuth2-based authentication system for Ansible Tower and designed and implemented a graph algorithm to automatically generate human-readable URL identifiers for Ansible Tower's online resources. Sirui holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Automation Science from Beihang University. His technical skills include Ansible, Backend development, Kubernetes, AWS, infra, Spark, microservices, test, and QA. With a strong background in software engineering and a proven track record of success, Sirui is a valuable asset to any team.