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Leo YuLY

Leo Yu

Senior System Engineer

£450/day
London, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Leo

Senior Linux and Site Reliability Engineer with over 15 years’ experience designing,
operating, and automating large-scale cloud and data centre infrastructures.
Strong background in Linux systems administration, infrastructure-as-code, and
observability platforms. Proven ability to improve system reliability, scalability, and
operational efficiency in enterprise environments. Experienced in production
support, incident management, and platform optimisation.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Chinese

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Cisco Systems
    Senior Cloud Engineer
    January 2016 - January 2024 (8 years)
    Beijing, China
    • • Designed, deployed, and operated enterprise-grade Linux based data centre and hybrid cloud platforms for multinational customers including Volkswagen, Samsung, China Mobile, and China Telecom.
    • • Led private cloud and NFV deployments based on OpenStack, KVM, VMware, and Kubernetes.
    • • Conducted capacity planning, system tuning, and fault analysis to improve platform resilience and availability.
    • • Lead hardware deployment, including Cisco UCS Servers, Nexus Switches and DELL/EMC Storages.
    • • Provided 3rd-line support for critical production systems, handling complex performance, availability, and security incidents.
    • • Collaborated with development, security, and operations teams to standardise operational processes and documentation.
    Network administration Cisco Docker Kubernetes Cloud architect
  • CollaCreative
    Chief Technical Consultant
    January 2014 - January 2024 (10 years)
    Beijing, China
    • • CollaCreative is Cisco's only training and solution partner in China region.
    • • Designed customised technical programmes for Cisco China and partners, covering Linux Kernel internal, OpenStack and Docker, Python Programming, Cisco SDN controller and Switch API.
    • • Delivered customised Linux and cloud infrastructure training to enterprise engineering teams across China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
    • • Supported customers with system architecture design, performance optimisation, and operational troubleshooting.
  • ThoughtWorks
    Chief Consultant
    January 2013 - January 2014 (1 year)
    Beijing, China
    • • Thoughtworks is the Initiator of Agile Manifesto, Agile development methodology
    • • Led Agile and DevOps transformation programmes for enterprise IT departments, customer include Microsoft, Siemens and Nokia.
    • • Designed delivery pipelines and operational workflows for customers to improve system stability and deployment reliability.
    • • Worked closely with customers' infrastructure and development teams to improve platform maturity.

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Education

  • MSc Information
    Royal Holloway, University of London
    2025
    MSc Information
  • BSc
    Central China Normal University
    1997
    BSc

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