Kaifeng Yao Email and Phone Number

Kaifeng Yao is a Head of Infrastructure @ ZIP at Zip. They possess expertise in distributed systems, scalability, software engineering, agile methodologies, cloud computing. Colleagues describe them as "Kaifeng and I have been working closely in Meta Compute Infra org. Kaifeng's Tupperware Scheduler team is the center of the Tupperware System - which is critical for the Infrastructure as a Service at Meta. Tupperware manages 95% of Meta production fleet with millions of servers. It is a tier-0 service crucial for keeping FB and other Apps up and running. Kaifeng is being responsible for Scheduler Container Orchestration control planes, Kaifeng is a very passionate, intelligent, and hard-working manager. He is someone with a good blend of strong technology, leadership, and people skills. He always works proactively driving technical initiatives and motivates his team under pressure. He demonstrated strong collaborative & partnership skills with other cross-functional organizations. I would welcome the opportunity of working with him in the future.", "Kaifeng was my direct manager in Meta for a year. In the last year, Kaifeng dived deep to the different technical challenges that our TW Scheduler team was facing, so he could provide the suggestions from both engineer and manager's perspectives. This is not required for his role, but it's really helpful for us. I'm really appreciated for that. TW Scheduler team has many clients, so we have many ask from them. Kaifeng made sure our team was not overwhelmed by projects by giving the right priority during planning or deprioritize it if it's necessary. Kaifeng always kept me in the loop whenever relevant works changed. If any unexpected request came to my plate, he will help me understand the context and find the right resources. It's been a pleasure to work with Kaifeng. I'd love to work with him again in the future.", and "I worked closely with Kaifeng for over a year while I was one of the overall TLs for cluster management at Meta while Kaifeng was a manager on the scheduler team within cluster management. I found Kaifeng to be a great partner to work with in multiple respects: * He readily understood the technical details and could easily hold technically deep conversations with ICs around our plans, while still fitting into the management style at Meta by maintaining a light touch and letting ICs be the drivers of technical decisions while helping them coordinate and stay unblocked. * He was great at considering how to support and grow the ICs who reported to him, and thoughtful in how to help them while taking into account their individual strengths and not trying to pigeonhole them into canonical roles. This was clearly an area he cared about and worked hard at, and the engineers reporting to him clearly benefited from it. * He helped to make sure engineers got recognition for their work, and helped the team get visibility for their overall contributions to internal efforts through effective broad communication. * He was more than willing to help out the org as a whole, serving on the org incident manager oncall rotation (responsible for ensuring area oncalls are unblocked on remediating ongoing issues) and personally helping me coordinate some of the responses when I was primary oncall. * He is easy to work with, generally relaxed, very receptive to feedback, and quick to act on it. Kaifeng was a constant source of steadiness and calm to those around him in an environment that was often not, and helped to provide stability and clarity to those around him. I greatly enjoyed working with Kaifeng, and he would be a strong asset to anyones management team"