# Alan Zhou

> Software Engineer at Meta

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alanzhou

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Chime
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Communications Platform team -
Backend engineer managing sending of member communications - push/email/sms

### Staff Software Engineer @ Okta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Honeybadgers Team:
- Enabled proxysql for another flavor of databases
- Designed & deployed dockerized database sharding infrastructure

### Senior Software Engineer @ Okta
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022
Core team:
- Migrated the entire properties configuration model to Spring cloud config server. 
       - Created infrastructure by writing terraform to create the AWS resources
       - Migrated all configuration properties from the old chef model to Spring config profiles
       - Rolled out Spring config server to the testing, preview, and production environments
- Dockerized and migrated the org creation service to ECS in preview and production environments
- Created a deep healthcheck framework that verifies essential states of underlying services upon startup

### Software Engineer @ Okta
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Core team - 
- Upgraded all of the main codebase from Java 1.7 to 1.8. Involved code changes, fixing broken tests, and rolling out canaries/upgrades through dev/production environments
- Implemented a logging framework that logs all JMX calls in Splunk
- Created an IP whitelisting feature that protects an org from hitting rate-limits during a DDOS attack
- Updated and fixed security packages to comply with known vulnerabilities and exploits

### Software Engineer Internship @ Okta, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Core team-
Implemented a tool that allowed admins to kill Okta sessions in case of unauthorized access

### Software Engineer Intern @ Agolo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Designed and implemented a database to hold relevant movie information to curate to users.
Exposed a REST API that interfaced all data exchange between the iOS app and the central dataabase.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Computer Science
Princeton University

### Ankeny High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alan-zhou-30a09874

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Last updated: 2026-04-05