Full-time Working Experience
Lenovo, Advisory DevOps Engineer/SRE, 2026.1-now, China
Canonical, Open-Source Software Developer, 2024.2-2025.10, WFH
Key contributor in the operator framework and a lightweight service manager Pebble; the only member in the team
who finishes all assigned roadmap items.
Flexport, Staff Software Engineer, 2022.11-2023.10, WFH
Joined as the 3rd staff engineer in the APAC region.
Evangelize DevOps/DevSecOps/GitOps/Platform Engineering to multiple teams globally, setup GitOps using Argo CD,
AWS Secrets Manager and Backstage according to DevSecOps best practice.
Migrate tens of microservices from AWS ECS to EKS to save cost, speed up time to deploy/time to rollback, and
boost productivity.
Merico, Principal of Chengdu Branch, Senior DevOps Expert, 2022.01-2022.11, WFH
Created the SaaS version of our in-house open-source software from scratch, single handedly.
Designed and implemented an open-source DevOps toolchain manager from scratch, created and maintained the
open-source community, and joined CNCF successfully.
Lead a team of 7.
Huawei Technologies, Architect/Software Expert, 2021.07-2021.12, China
Coached 200+ engineers in 3 R&D centers about DevOps, clean code, and code refactoring.
Performance multiplication for Huawei cloud securities product; from architectural level to hands-on detailed
improvements.
Amazon Web Services, Senior DevOps Consultant, 2020.12-2021.06, Germany
Led many multi-million DevOps/Cloud projects for global financial corporations to architect and implement
cloud/hybrid solutions with a top level of performance, resilience, and security.
Led conversations, demos, and presentations to customers' C-level executives.
Coached different teams and AWS customers about best practices in DevOps, agile and software engineering.
Allianz Technology, Senior SRE, 2019.07-2020.12, Germany
Implemented from scratch the whole infrastructure for Allianz Direct, serving millions of users in 4 countries
in the EU.
Led the Container Runtime Platform 2.0 project (team of 13 people), participated in all architectural
decisions, and contributed 90% of the code. This project served hundreds of Allianz global branches, companies
and teams.
KI labs GmbH, Cloud Architect/CTO. 2018.04-2019.07, Germany
Created and grew the cloud engineering team from scratch, interviewed over 200+ candidates in 1.5 years, and
grew the team from 20 to 80 people.
Created and led the engineering committee, serving as an equivalent to CTO before we had one. Created the
career path. Hired a CTO to replace me so that I could focus on cloud architecture.
Evangelized DevOps culture to frontend/backend/data scientist teams and global customers.
Leading conversations, demos, and presenting to customers' C-level executives.
Worked in parallel for multiple projects, architected and implemented cloud-native infrastructure from scratch
on AWS, GCP and Azure with 100% infrastructure as code, configuration management, and continuous deployment.
Some customers: Mercedes, AMG, Lanxess, Apobank; some projects: on-prem private cloud automation (20k+ servers
with K8s and containers and Ceph.)
MYJAR, Senior SRE, 2017-2018, Estonia
Migrated on-premises VM-based infrastructure entirely to AWS; saved more than 50% cost and deployment velocity
increased 50%.
Refactored the monolith into a microservices architecture to solve performance bottlenecks and enabled more
frequent deployments.
Rewrote CI/CD pipelines with configuration management to eliminate errors and duplicated code.
Kühne+Nagel, Senior DevOps Engineer, 2016-2017, Estonia
Transformed the engineering team from waterfall to Agile.
Coached three teams globally to do test-driven development.
Introduced configuration management in multiple environments to three teams globally to reduce deployment time
by 90% with no errors or inconsistency.
Setup CI/CD from scratch.
Created an in-house monitoring tool from scratch.
App Annie, Staff Full Stack Engineer, 2015-2016, China
Developed both the frontend and the backend of our app intelligence system with test automation, impacting
millions of users and making the product No.1 in the market.
Onboarded and mentored new junior engineering members.
Improved the agile processes and sprint success rate.
Oracle, Senior Member of Technical Staff, 2013-2015, China
Collaborated with three teams globally to design, develop and test our toolchain for CI to achieve 100%
automation.
Grew the team: interviewed, hired, and coached four junior members.
Baidu Inc, Software Engineer, 2010-2013, China
Joined as the 3rd member of the architecture team, grew with the team together to 50+ people.
Built a multi-datacenter infrastructure with 30+ high-performing, highly-available shared services with load
balancing and automatic disaster recovery, which served all the vertical product teams inside Baidu at a rate of
more than 10 billion requests per day.
SINOSURE, Software Engineer, Product Owner, 2008-2010, China
Developed and maintained our import/export insurance platform, which served over 100k corporations and
supported over 1 trillion exports and investments. Made export to high-risk regions possible.
Designed and implemented the digital signature system for online insurance policies from scratch.
Designed a new online insurance sales platform from scratch.