ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Glen Yu, a Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud, a HashiCorp Ambassador, a HashiCorp Core Contributor for Nomad, a husband, a father, a geek and an Oreo cookies addict.

I find Machine Learning interesting and would like to perhaps one day transition to a ML Engineer role where I can work on some innovative projects while leveraging my cloud experience.

Contact: [email protected]

Certifications

GCP Certified: Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Dec 2023

CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

Dec 2022

GCP Certified: Professional Cloud Database Engineer

July 2022

HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional

Mar 2022

GCP Certified: Professional Data Engineer

Nov 2021

GCP Certified: Professional Cloud Developer

July 2021

GCP Certified: Professional Cloud Security Engineer

May 2021

GCP Certified: Professional Cloud Network Engineer

May 2021

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

Apr 2021

GCP Certified: Professional Cloud Architect

July 2020

GCP Certified: Associate Cloud Engineer

June 2018

GCP Certified: Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Sept 2021 (Expired)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Apr 2021 (Expired)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Aug 2020 (Expired)

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Dec 2019 (Expired)

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHEL7)

June 2016 (Expired)

Work

PwC Canada

Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering •Toronto, ON • Apr 2022 - Present

  • Cloud engineery things
  • Google Cloud
  • HashiCorp tooling

    • Sourced Group

    Consultant •Toronto, ON • Feb 2021 - Apr 2022

  • All things GCP (plus some that are not)

    • Ample Organics

    Cloud Architect •Toronto, ON • June 2019 - Feb 2021

  • Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, ALB, WAF, IAM, etc.)
  • HashiCorp stack (Packer, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad)
  • Kubernetes, Docker
  • Rundeck, Ansible
  • $500,000 saved annually through redesign of cloud infrastructure, right-sizing and optimization
  • rearchitected container orchestration strategy to reduce complexity, increase stability and security
  • introduced new tools to improve existing CI/CD, add automation and reduce toil

    • Canadian Tire Corporation

    Senior DevOps Engineer •Toronto, ON • June 2017 - June 2019

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCE, GCS, Filestore, Shared VPC, ALB, IAM, etc.)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • HashiCorp stack
  • Atlassian suite
  • Spinnaker, Jenkins, Artifactory
  • Kubernetes, Docker
  • Rundeck Enterprise, Ansible

    • Senior Technical Specialist • Apr 2015 - June 2017

    Technical Specialist • Oct 2011 - Apr 2015

    Projects

    FindingWaldo.app

    Creator • June 2022 - Present

    HashiCorp Nomad OpenAPI

    Contributor • Sept 2021 - Oct 2022

    Rundeck GCP Nodes Plugin

    Maintainer • June 2018 - Present

    Presentations

    Serverless Vault for Dev

    G. Yu •HashiConf Global • Oct 2022

    Solving Kubernetes Problems using eBPF & Cilium

    G. Yu •CNCF Meetup • Sept 2022

    eBPF, Cilium and GKE Dataplane V2

    G. Yu •Google Developers North America • Aug 2022

    How To Build Instagram From Scratch - System Design Series

    G. Yu •Think Outside The Valley • Aug 2022

    Ample Organics' Road to HashiCorp Nomad

    G. Yu and K. Tawaststjerna •Nomad Virtual Day • Mar 2021

    CMP343-S: Turbocharge your data center infrastructure with AMD

    V. Rozanovich, R. Somani, F. Lacalamita and G. Yu •AWS re:Invent 2019 • Dec 2019

    Publications

    Workload Identity for GKE made easy with open source tools

    G. Yu •Google Cloud Blog • Mar 2023

    Ample Organics Reduces Toil with Self-Service Operations

    G. Yu Interviewed by Rundeck •Rundeck • Jan 2021

    Ample Organics Uses HashiCorp Suite to Cultivate IT Systems for Emerging Cannabis Industry

    F. Lacalamita and G. Yu Interviewed by K. Spinelli•HashiCorp • Sept 2020

    How HashiCorp Nomad Helps Relax Cannabis Compliance and Kubernetes Complexity

    F. Lacalamita and G. Yu•The New Stack • Aug 2020

    AMD - Ample Organics case study

    F. Lacalamita and G. Yu•AMD • June 2020