theburningmonk.com

Hi there, my name is Yan Cui and wel­come to my blog!

I’m a senior server side devel­oper in the social gam­ing divi­sion (code­name iwi) of GameSys where my focus is on build­ing the infra­struc­ture as well as devel­op­ing the server side logic for our games on Facebook.

Most of our server code is writ­ten in C# with some spe­cific com­po­nents being writ­ten in F#. All of our code is hosted in Ama­zon EC2 and we heav­ily uti­lize the many ser­vices that Ama­zon has to offer to achieve the level of scal­a­bil­ity we require to sup­port the rapid growth of our games!

I’m a pas­sion­ate coder and I take great pride in writ­ing clean, well struc­tured code and I love the scal­a­bil­ity chal­lenges that my job offers on a day-to-day basis.

When I’m not work­ing on our games, I enjoy spend­ing time research­ing and learn­ing other tech­nolo­gies and I’m a big fan of func­tional pro­gram­ming, cloud com­put­ing and NoSQL databases.

I’m also a Post­Sharp MVP and I have been actively pro­mot­ing the use of Aspect-Oriented Pro­gram­ming to devel­op­ers in the UK.