Yu Luo

Principal Engineer at Heron Energy · Cloud infrastructure

Heron Energy

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · MYT (UTC+8)

11+ years experience

University of Malaya

English, Malay, Spanish

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Overview

Currently at Heron Energy, where I work on cloud infrastructure. Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 30 a week to 1. Before that: Google and ByteDance. Most at home with Linux and Kubernetes. Plant-based cook and baker.

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Prometheuscloud securityGoAWSLinuxKubernetes

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for construction estimating for manufacturers in Southeast Asia

The idea: Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for construction estimating for manufacturers in Southeast Asia
Stage: Idea
I bring: 5 years in developer infrastructure
Looking for: Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment: Full-time now
Location: Kuala Lumpur or remote

I bring 13 years of cloud infrastructure (currently Heron Energy). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysiacloud securitylinuxprometheus

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Experience

Principal Engineer
Jul 2024 - Present
Heron Energy · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Sit on 3 boards.
- Backed 51 founders at pre-seed and seed.
- Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
Site Reliability Engineer
Jun 2021 - Jul 2024
Google · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Shipped 23 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
Site Reliability Engineer
Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
ByteDance · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Moved 82% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Wrote the AWS service that now handles 86 million requests a day.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
Naver · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Led the migration of 22 services to Linux.
- Moved 91% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Jan 2016 - Jun 2017
Accenture · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 46% in two quarters.
- Grew the infrastructure team from 6 to 18 engineers.

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Education

University of Malaya
BSc, Information Technology
2009 - 2013

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