# Justin Lai

> Sr Software Engineer @ Labcorp

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/justinlai

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Java, Docker, Kubernetes and Microservice Architecture. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor's Degree focused in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Labcorp
Jan 2023 – Present
Formerly @ Invitae (Acquired by Labcorp 2024) 
- Supported an internal Kubernetes platform comprising of 20 clusters, including 7 production environments maintaining optimal uptime and stability.
- Developed and integrated cluster validation tests into a Jenkins pipeline, improving automated deployment reliability and reducing human intervention during production releases.
- Integrated Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA), enabling the platform to automatically scale applications based on real-time workloads, optimizing performance and resource utilization.
- Led PodSecurityPolicies deprecations ensuring platform security and seamless upgrades to Kubernetes 1.25 without service disruptions.

### Consulting Reliability Engineer @ Weaveworks
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Lead CRE consultant for crypto unicorn client and S&P 500 company architecting and implementing end-to-end cluster and application lifecycles
- Built developer preview environments in AWS leveraging Kubernetes integrating Helm charts and tools such as eksctl, Terraform, GitHub actions, Ruby, kind, and Docker
- Delivered an ‘Introduction to Kubernetes’ seminar at the 2022 All Things Open Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Created CI/CD pipelines leveraging Tekton, Terraform and Weave GitOps Enterprise

### Senior Software Engineer @ SAIC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
- Spearheaded commercialization effort of an IR&D project, leading a team in the Agile development cycle.
- Designed a Microservice application with Java, React, PostgreSQL, Docker containers and Kubernetes.
- Integrated open source applications(Metabase, Gitlab, Fluentd, Elasticsearch,Sonarqube) into a Microservice application.
- Created Jenkins pipelines (CI/CD) leveraging Helm charts for repeatable, resilient, and reliable deployments.
- Created and managed a Kubernetes cluster for the development usage of 14 developers.

### Software Engineer @ SAIC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
- Continued prototype development of IR&D project with Java, Javascript, PostgreSQL.
- Supported a Cloud migration of an on-prem Java application into a distributed AWS Elastic Beanstalk application integrating AWS SQS and S3 to support data transfers.

### Associate Software Engineer @ SAIC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, California, United States
- Supported a high visibility project delivered to the U.S Navy using technologies including C#, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Javascript/JQuery, KendoUI, HTML, CSS.
- Contributed software engineering expertise for an IR&D product involving AWS and Microsoft Azure and presented to C-Suite executives.
- Participated in Agile/Scrum development cycles

### Course Tutor @ University of California, San Diego
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Providing students with guidance in their approach to system and algorithm analysis. Maintaining and submitting student grades and records. Facilitated group discussion in analysis of big-O notation, simple graph theory and probability.

### Web Developer Intern @ RCSB-SDSC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | La Jolla, California
Turned Photoshop website mock-ups into actual HTML and CSS designs. Assigned to understand the structure of the web application written using Java, JSP, Struts, HTML and CSS. Integrated third-party software, Mendeley and Endnote into the web application


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
UC San Diego
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/justinwlai

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Last updated: 2026-03-22