About

Yidan Sheng is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer with 3.78 years of experience in the industry. Currently, Yidan is working with Amazon as a Software Development Engineer, where he is responsible for developing software applications that meet the needs of the organization. With a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas, Yidan is well-versed in a variety of programming languages and software development tools. Prior to joining Amazon, Yidan worked with Epsilon as a Software Developer II and I. During his tenure, he developed a script to populate the size of Hive warehouse to InfluxDB, which was used for time series monitoring with Grafana. He also built and maintained an application to automatically restart Impala service, monitor the server's health status, and running duration of queries with Cloudera Manager API and Python. Additionally, Yidan utilized NGINX as a proxy server for Kibana via OpenResty and developed Lua script to support user authentication and restrict access to index patterns/dashboards. He also developed workflows for Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, and Zookeeper maintenance while executing OS patching with Stackstorm, Consul, ChatOps, etc. Furthermore, Yidan built a Kubernetes cluster with Kubespray, developed Ansible playbooks, worked on Docker images, and managed OS configuration. Yidan's technical expertise includes but is not limited to Software Engineering, Ansible, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, and Apache Hive. He is a highly motivated individual who is passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions that meet the needs of his clients. With his extensive experience and technical skills, Yidan is a valuable asset to any organization.