Passionate about control plane system, high-throughput caching service, data store service, Golang, Rust, Memcached, and RocksDB.

2024 — NowStripeSenior Software Engineer

2024 — Now

South San Francisco, California, United States

Building a distributed datastore in Rust.

Architected and led Stripe’s distributed caching service V2, significantly reducing infrastructure cost and latency while increasing peak throughput and availability; filed a patent for the novel design.

2022 — 2024StripeSoftware Engineer

2022 — 2024

South San Francisco, California, United States

Built the control plane system from scratch (0 → 1) for managing distributed caching clusters at Stripe, including design, implementation, and ownership; two US patents are issued where I am listed as the first-named inventor (details below).

2021 — 2022OracleSenior Software Engineer, Cloud Service

2021 — 2022

Greater Seattle Area

Expert in internal-facing tier-zero Bastion service, supporting secured network traffic between all the core OCI cloud computing services and on-premise devices throughout the world.

Streamlined the build-out process of Bastion service in new data centers which involves dozens of critical components, greatly reducing the build-out time from weeks to hours. This project possesses high cooperation-wide visibility and impact.

2020 — 2020OracleSoftware Engineer, Cloud Service

2020 — 2020

Greater Seattle Area

End-to-end designed and implemented Bastion agent in Golang from 0 → 1, which are being deployed to hundreds of remote Bastion servers all around the world as part of our flagship OCI cloud computing security product. The Bastion agent that I owned is the core component responsible for managing Linux network resources on demand, and providing secured and stable SSH connections to customers. This product was released globally, see: https://www.oracle.com/security/cloud-security/bastion/

2019 — 2020WeWorkSoftware Engineer

2019 — 2020

Palo Alto

Backend Development:

Built and maintained a generic data servicing platform serving multiple data science teams.

Developed and deployed a Spring Boot–based GraphQL API with fuzzy search, integrating Elasticsearch and Snowflake; ran the service on Kubernetes.

Data Engineering:

Designed and maintained multiple ETL pipelines, orchestrated with Airflow and executed on Spark (AWS EMR); implemented storage solutions using PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, and Amazon Redshift.

Education

UCLA

Master's degree

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Experience+

Education

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree