🔍 Senior Software Engineer | Backend Engineer | Platform Engineer | Distributed Systems 🚀 My name is Jack Lian, a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, and distributed systems.

2023 — NowTikTokSenior Software Engineer

2023 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Trust and Safety

2021 — 2023TigerGraphSoftware Engineer II

2021 — 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

Tigergraph(www.tigergraph.com): The Only Scalable Graph Database for the Enterprise

Implemented benchmark test modules on Jenkins to measure QPS and Query time cost by writing bash scripts

and third-party tools called wrk and Pewpew.

Contributed and designed test cases for a large amount of nodes' availability with different data sizes (ongoing).

Performed Kafka connector tests to load data from AWS S3, ABS, and GCS to support WKH cloud feature.

Executed manual tests on Tigergraph Kubernetes(GKE, EKS, AKS) operator with single server and clusters.

Leveraged knowledge in Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Kafka, Bash, Jenkins, GSQL

2020 — 2021Collective MedicalSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2021

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Collective Medical(www.collectivemedical.com): Closing the Healthcare Communication Gap

Monitored team-wide Splunk logs in order to debug failures and update CVE (Common Vulnerability

Exposure).

Deployed weekly releases and builds to Atlassian Bamboo through Docker containers.

Developed e2e test scripts to implement test scenarios and features for BDD (Behavior Driven Development)

by using Java Jbehave.

Performed and documented endpoint responses, JSON data formats, and API tests by using Postman.

Leveraged knowledge in Java Jbehave, Git, Programming in Java using IntelliJ, Splunk, Atlassian Bamboo, Linux,

Ubuntu, MySQL, Postman, HL7, Docker, Kafka, Gradle, Kubernetes

2019 — 2019VenafiSoftware Engineer Intern

2019 — 2019

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Company: Venafi Inc.

Team: Server Agent

Product: https://support.venafi.com/hc/en-us/sections/203604647-Venafi-Agent

Manager: Cary Woodland

Mentors: Reid Poole, Patrick Campbell, Lili Peng

Discovered and fixed 2 multibyte conversion bugs that would display Chinese SSL certificates’ friendly names

and clients’ user names incorrectly.

Deployed an automated continuous integration system using Jenkins and VMware in order to scan the SSL

certificates in Microsoft CAPI store.

Improved the Python API tests by 8% by automating unzipping tar files for data transmission between local

database and web servers.

Leveraged knowledge in Linux, Ubuntu, Vim, programming in Objective-C using Visual Studio 2017, Python

using PyCharm 3.5, and integrated automation testing with Jenkins, VMware.

2019 — 2019Indus Valley PartnersSoftware Engineer Intern

2019 — 2019

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Company: Indus Valley Partners

Team: Ivp Polaris

Product: https://www.ivp.in/portfolio/ivp-polaris/ & Polaris Database

Manager: Himadri Bagchi

Mentors: Dhruv Shah, Ankita Gupta & Ananth Ramaswamy

Education

University of Utah John and Marcia Price College of Engineering

Bachelor's degree

Dixie State University

Experience+

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate's Degree