# (Luke) Xiaotian Wang

> Principal Software Engineer in Palo Alto Networks

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lukexiaotianwang

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. Led cross-functional initiatives across 20+ enterprise projects testing & tools development, with 95%+ automation coverage and measurable improvements in coverage and execution efficiency.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2022 – Present
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.

### Member of the Technical Staff 3 - 4 @ Nutanix
Jan 2018 – Jan 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.

### Member of Technical Staff 2 @ Tintri
Jan 2015 – Jan 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.

### SDE Intern @ Waijule.com
Jan 2015 – Jan 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.

### QA Engineer/game designer @ Fox Studio
Jan 2009 – Jan 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
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Washington


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12