Kuan-Hao Lai

Software Engineer with 3+ years at Trend Micro across platform, cloud security, and network security domains. Strong background in Go, Python, and cloud-native infrastructure. Active open source contributor to Strimzi and OpenTelemetry.

1. 
   CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)

   Open Source Contributor

   Mar 2026 – Present · Remote · Volunteer

   • StrimziMar 2026 – Present

     Kafka-on-Kubernetes operator — feature gates, cert rotation, reconciliation fixes.

   • OpenTelemetryMay 2026 – Present

     CI tooling and query-engine contributions across Ecosystem Explorer and otel-arrow.

2. 
   Trend Micro

   Software Engineer

   Sep 2022 – Jan 2026 · Taipei, Taiwan · Full-time

   • POSEIDONhome team

     Platform engineering — CI/CD migration and service templating.

   • V1CSSep 2023 – Oct 2024, secondment

     Cloud security — Kubernetes admission control and multi-cloud expansion.

   • DVASFeb 2025 – Jan 2026, secondment

     Network security — performance testing infrastructure and device detection.

3. 
   College Admission Committee (CAC)

   Scrum Master

   2020 – 2022 · Chiayi, Taiwan · Part-time

My open source pull request contributions across various projects.