Ning Cui

About Ning Cui

6+ years of industry experience in Software Design and Development• End-to-end responsibility for deploying Docker-based microservices on Amazon AWS, including a full-stack project utilized by over microservices within the organization for automation, scalability, and promoting builds from staging to production.• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, multi-threading, and distributed system design.• Proven ability to take a problem statement and turn it into a well-designed, implemented, and tested solution.• Hands-on experience working with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud computing, Jenkins, Git, CircleCI, Bazel, Terraform.Programming Languages: Golang, Python, TypeScript, JavaScriptWeb Technologies: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, RESTful, gRPC, Distributed Systems, MicroservicesOther Technologies: Linux, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, Cloudformation

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Compass

   Feb 2023 — Present

   Successfully led the development of the deployment platform at Compass, enabling developers to deploy and roll back their services to Kubernetes seamlessly and effortlessly, with support for a wide range of Kubernetes objects and AWS resources, such as CloudFormation and Lambda.• Proactively initiated and managed a project that significantly reduced the code testing time in the beta environment by 88%, down to just 4 minutes.• Innovated the pipeline process by introducing templating support, allowing users to make changes to the spec files in real-time, resulting in a deployment time reduction of over 91%.• Implemented real-time monitoring tools using Kubernetes and AWS APIs, providing in-depth insights into deployments in the cluster and dramatically reducing support requests by 82%.• Enhanced data security and recoverability by introducing audit trails to the pipelines, promoting user accountability and reducing the average turnaround time for incidents by 74%.• Developed several services that streamline the deployment process, including a Mirroring Image service that transfers Docker images across AWS accounts and a Kubernetes Spec validation service that performs code analysis on Kubernetes specs.• Leveraged extensive technical skills in Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GitHub, and Circle CI to build a robust and reliable backend for the deployment platform, with an impressive track record of fewer than 4 incidents per year.

Education

• University of Southern California

  Master’s Degree, Computer Science

  2016 — 2018

• Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  2011 — 2015