Yinfeng (Kiyor) Cai

Summary

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable, cost-efficient platforms across GCP and Kubernetes. Specialized in infrastructure automation, AI workload orchestration (incl. video/image), and internal platform design. Experience with edge-like deployment patterns and real-time system observability. Proven track record in reducing cloud cost and driving developer productivity through DevOps tooling.

Experience

Projects & Highlights

• Speaker at SCALE15x: Gossip protocol in CDN design.
• Built self-deploy cloud portal from scratch for cloud provider.
• Built distributed video classification and storage pipeline using Kubernetes + S3, including GPU-based AI inference for content tagging and deduplication.
• Created internal management system for local trucking company.
• Managed Minecraft server for 2 years as hobby project.
• Builds and maintains a wide range of DevOps tooling (e.g. infra generators, deployment pipelines).
• Lead security competition team to national victory in the College.

Education

• Mt. San Antonio College, CA – Computer Science (2010-2012)
• Shanda University, Shanghai – Information Management (2007–2009)