Principal-level Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building large-scale security and cloud platform systems. Expertise in distributed systems validation, AI-powered automation platforms, performance engineering, and multi-cloud infrastructure.
Experience
2022 — Now
Tech Lead for enterprise security platform validation across 20+ large-scale, cross-team projects.
• Achieved 95%+ automation coverage across distributed security systems.
• Leveraged AI-assisted engineering workflows to increase coverage by 50%+ while reducing regression execution time by 30%.
• Lead project team of 3-4 engineer, architected and rebuilt legacy automation frameworks, modernizing testing infrastructure across product lines.
• Designed and implemented AI-driven config-based automation platform (Google Sheets → Config → Code), enabling declarative test definition by developers and PMs.
• Experienced in FedRAMP validation programs and compliance audition across federal cloud environments.
• Conducted large-scale production testing and debugging across: Next-generation firewall systems, URL and content detection cloud infra and ML-based detector with multi-cloud distributed analysis platforms (GCP, AWS, OCI)
• Designed performance testing tools (k6, Nginx traffic simulation) and established performance benchmarks as release gating criteria.
• Participated in product architecture design reviews as quality and system validation lead.
2018 — 2022
2018 — 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
Tech lead of software and system testing
• Designed testing of products with different teams. Delivered 4 features as a test lead.
• Led testing projects with 4-6 team members, coordinate project testing and release cross 3-5
teams.
• Design and developed 15-20 E2E tests on enterprise could services, include data retrieving API and
framework, cloud usage analyzing and planning, licensing system, user authorization, internal search
system, alerts and events, multi-tenant cloud, virtual network, etc.
• Design and developed 20+ testing frameworks and tools with Python, widely used other testing
engineers. Improved testing and product quality for 40+ features
• Filed 300+ major bugs of product.
• Maintained, debugged, improved and rewrote 60+test automation.
• Coached and trained testing team with 15+ members.
Software development engineer
• Designed and developed TRM(Tenant Resource Manager) API and system in Python, which handles
requests from cloud user of adding/removing resource.
• Designed and developed cloud user onboarding system, which create and authorized new user to
cloud system.
2015 — 2018
2015 — 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
SDET for File System and System Management
• Test features in main releases of enterprise cloud storage products.
• Design test plans for FS (C++ based) and SM(Java based) features.
• Develop automated test cases in python/unittest framework, maintain and triage large number of test cases in different areas for long term.
• Design and implement testing tools and test Api for stress environment simulation, virtualization environment configuration, network disconnection simulation, data collection and analysis.
• Experienced for system testing with Linux and UI testing with VMware Vcenter and Web UI.
• Test features/areas: snapshot, cloning, replication, syncVM, space accounting, Qos, SyncRepl, web server/DB, REST Api, FS performance, remote copy, UI.
• Collaborate with co-workers from different teams, train new members with FS/SM/Testing knowledge.
• Experienced for urgent release/customer issue fix testing.
• Work with Bugzilla and Jira.
2015 — 2015
2015 — 2015
Seattle, WA
Start-up Full Stack SDE Intern
• A website provides information of homes and agents in the US for Chinese people.
• Develop the admin system front-end web pages with AngularJS.
• Develop the admin system back-end functions with NodeJS and Java.
• Design database for user subscription and agent account application with MongoDB.
• Created new features of send email, approve/decline application, send subscription.
• Work on areas of testing, QA, feature design and UI design with other 11 coworkers.
2009 — 2010
2009 — 2010
Qingdao, Shandong, China
Multi-roles in small start-up
• Develop literature based game with other 4 team members.
• Design all the test plans as the only tester for gaming project.
• Manual test for game mechanism and content, include unit test and product test.
• Experienced for game drama writing and product planning.
Education
University of Washington