Hongchao Deng
Software Engineer at CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolHongchao Deng is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems, currently at Anyscale working on infrastructure for LLMs and generative AI. He blends backend and DevOps expertise—having scaled Alibaba’s Kubernetes clusters to 26,000 nodes with custom scheduling algorithms and co-founded the Open Application Model/KubeVela to simplify multi-cloud application delivery. A prolific open-source contributor and co-chair of the CNCF App-Delivery TAG, his work spans Kubernetes, etcd, Ray, operator tooling and ML ops, with hands-on fixes, refactors and automation across those projects. Notably, he has driven large performance gains and operational automation—from scheduler speedups and self-hosted etcd work to GitHub-driven LGTM/approval handlers and Ray GCP node management—and has entrepreneurial experience building AI-enhanced developer tools.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sun Yat-Sen UniversityMaster's degree, Network and Security, Master's degree, Network and Security at Carnegie Mellon University
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python10
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file-systems10
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gcp10
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dockerfile10
operators10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/vault-operator
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Run and manage Vault on Kubernetes simply and securely
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:248 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Hongchao primarily focused on infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project. They made significant contributions by introducing automated scripts for creating and cleaning up resources within the Kubernetes environment. Key changes include updating the Kubernetes client and API, making the vault work with etcd3 backend, and adding readiness and liveness probes for improved monitoring. The user also worked on enabling TLS and security configurations to enhance the overall security posture of the deployment.
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AliyunContainerService/derrick
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
🐳A tool to help you containerize application in seconds
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 98 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Hongchao primarily focused on restructuring the project's codebase, refactoring packages, and renaming files. Their contributions involved changes to core application components like `main.go`, command-line interface functions, and core packages. Furthermore, the user integrated updated template functionality into the project, and generated documentation on the Derrick documentation website.
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