# Lei Zhu

> Staff Software Engineer at Reddit

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/leizhu

As a lead, I always value my team and customer. As a software engineer, solution first is always my philosophy. Being
able to make sharp decision on what, when or how to do to solve a problem aren’t enough, as always,
I tend to make it real by participating in every single step of implementation. 

I’m looking for a hand-on team lead role as
well as being both a software engineer in my next opportunity so that I can keep implementing my goal.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Staff software engineer, Quality Engineering

### Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart eCommerce
Jan 2013 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Team lead of Developer Productivity team. Lead in building and standardizing e2e functional test platform and
process in Walmart, Inc. Proficient in nodejs, good in golang and java.

2019-present
Architect, design and implement Walmart’s internal, cloud native test platform Plexus. Plexus provides browser (cloud native), emulator (cloud native) and real devices for manual and automated test purpose. Its cloud native feature makes it easily scalable, resilient, highly available, lightning fast and easily being integrated into Walmart’s K8s CICD pipeline with hapijs, socketio, selenium grid, appium, kafka, memcached, docker, azure families (azure blob storage, azure file volume, azure sql). Plexus is the default test platform right now in Walmart. 

2013-2018 
Architect, design and implement Walmart’s internal Nodejs test automation framework (https://github.com/TestArmada/magellan) for browser and mobile app, which is used by every Walmart GeC(Global eCom, including walmart.com, walmart international, Walmart apps) team. This framework decides how to scale tests better than ever, manages test run in parallel and terminate unnecessary test run early for a faster feedback. It’s the default test automation framework right now in Walmart GeC. 

Lead and build Walmart GeC’s test automation CICD pipeline, which evolves into GeC's most
critical code quality gate from PR to deployment later. Design and architect test automation infrastructure supporting whole GeC's tens of thousands of test run per day. 

Lead and design Walmart GeC's browser provider (saucelabs) test infrastructure, including test environment, network topology for inbound/outbound traffic management/firewall setup, and collaborate with various teams to implement the infra. Design and implement high availability sauce tunnel manager https://www.npmjs.com/package/testarmada-crows-nest before sauce tunnel supports high availability mode back in 2015. 

Mentor new hire, junior and senior engineer.

### Senior Platform SDET @ GREE, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Beijing - San Francisco Bay Area
Test team lead. Lead manual QA in Beijing and SF, CA. Standardize QA process, take part in
decision making for production release.

Design and build test automation tools for backend API, web and Android/iOS SDK products to
reduce manual QA work.

Design and build load test tools in Golang to ease load test pain for backend API with much
higher load concurrency and less compute consumption.

Build CICD flow from scratch and standardize it across backend API, web and mobile SDK from
code being submitted into Github to production release.

Mentor junior engineer and new hire.

### Senior SDET @ Baidu, Inc.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Beijing
union.baidu.com test team lead. Take part in every phase in whole test process including requirement review, implement and test case design and review for black box test and test automation with whole team.

Lead in designing, implementing and maintaining test automation for beidou.baidu.com and union.baidu.com product.

Mentor junior engineer and new hire.


## Education
### Master in Computer Science
Tongji University

### Bachelor in Software Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thunderzhulei
- GitHub: https://github.com/archlichking

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Last updated: 2026-04-12