# Linqi Pan

> Software Engineer @ Confluent

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

Senior Software Engineer with a strong track record of technical leadership in platform engineering and reliability. Specializes in distributed systems and infrastructure automation, with extensive experience leading critical migrations and product launches at Confluent and Meta. Expert in driving engineering efficiency through the design of scalable reliability tools and self-healing network services. Skilled in Python, Go, and C++, combining deep technical knowledge with the ability to drive cross-team adoption and significant cost optimizations.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ Confluent
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
* Ops/SRE Agent: Leverages LLM to optimize communication and question-answering with on-call engineers and technical support

* Synthetics Platform 0-1: Architected and led the full lifecycle—from concept and roadmap planning to performance optimization—of a distributed testing service using OSS k6 on Kubernetes, generating consistent and trustworthy reliability signals for engineering services.

* Shoreline Platform Infrastructure: Built the self-hosted infrastructure for Shoreline (an automated cloud infrastructure remediation engine) in FedRAMP, and architected Business Continuity (BCP/DR) capabilities.

### Production Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
* Traffic Infrastructure Modernization: Developed a "Drainer Service" to drain connections safely from corp load balancer before self-initiated maintenance, paving the path for automated mini-storm testing.

* Network Configuration Automation: Designed and implemented an audit service to enforce "source of truth" configurations across network devices, automatically remediating drift to accelerate team operations.

* Core Service Reliability: Engineered a backtesting and integration testing framework to replay historical provisioning transactions, ensuring data consistency during a critical migration from legacy PowerShell to Python/LDAP3 services.

### Senior HPC Engineer, Software and Systems @ Rescale
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
* Built and maintained the global compute grid infrastructure, automating OS image generation and scientific software packaging for seamless deployment across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

* Led the integration of Samsung ASIC computing hardware into the Rescale HPC platform; the technical success of this project led directly to Samsung becoming a strategic investor.


## Education
### PhD Dropped out in Computational Science
UC San Diego

### Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering
Rice University

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering
Hefei University of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29