Boa-Lin Lai
Production Engineer (Software Engineer) @ Meta | ASIC Infrastructure · Capacity · Messaging (RTC)
- Role
- Production Engineer at Meta
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Boa-Lin Lai
Interested in Reliability, Developer efficiency, Cloud Infrastructure, Networking.
Experience
Production Engineer
Feb 2019 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
ASIC Infrastructure & Hardware Fleet Engineering- Technical Ownership: Own observability and automated health-check systems for 300+ ASIC emulation devices, reducing incident detection latency in hardware validation workflows- Systems Engineering: Developed automated provisioning and lifecycle management pipelines for bare-metal hosts supporting mission-critical compute infrastructure- Reliability: Resolved complex hardware-software interaction issues across a distributed fleet of VMs and compute nodes.## Service Capacity & Distributed Systems- Autoscaling Logic: Developed an estimation service to enable peak/non-peak autoscaling, allowing services to scale 50% of capacity daily based on global traffic patterns- Service Efficiency: Redesigned internal tooling and standardized CI/CD workflows, achieving a 5x increase in deployment velocity for the organization- High-Throughput Systems: Developed and operated a C++ telemetry ingestion service processing 100 MB/s from servers for fleet health monitoring.## Messaging (Messenger & Instagram RTC)Service - Scaling: Addressed technical scaling challenges for voice and video calling infrastructure, supporting services that grew 100x in size within 2 years- Fleet Deployment: Executed fleet deployment strategies for servers, implementing non-peak release protocols to maintain service stability- Cross-Team Impact: Influenced organization-wide best practices by presenting deployment architectures to engineers at the Meta Production Engineering Summit- Security & Compliance: Acted as Privacy & Security Champion, leading audits and implementing automated safeguards to eliminate PII exposure in operational logs.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Computer Systems and Software
2017 — 2018
Iowa State University
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering
2013 — 2015
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering
2015 — 2017
Skills
- Matlab
- Teamwork
- C++
- Python
- Latex
- C
- Java
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