Alex Huang
@alexhuang4
Senior platform and DevOps engineer building reliable Kubernetes infrastructure for enterprise-scale cloud systems.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Platform / DevOps / SRE engineer with 10+ years building and operating enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. At Plaid, I architected an Internal Developer Platform supporting 40+ engineering teams, delivering 99.99% availability, $1.5M+ annual cost savings, and a 4x deployment frequency improvement.
I’m deep in distributed systems reliability, GitOps, DevSecOps, and FinOps—comfortable owning both the platform layer and the code running on it. I’ve led multi-region Kubernetes platform delivery (EKS), standardized Terraform landing zones to cut provisioning from 4 days to under 2 hours, enforced automated policy gates to block non-compliant infrastructure changes, improved SOC 2 Type II readiness, and reduced MTTR 40% through SLI/SLO observability and structured incident response.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Architected Plaid’s Internal Developer Platform for 40+ teams processing millions of bank connections daily, delivering 99.99% availability. Improved deployment frequency 4x (weekly to daily) while reducing rollback incidents by 65% and cutting environment provisioning from 4 days to under 2 hours.
Built and operated high-throughput distributed systems on AWS, delivering 100K+ RPS with sub-50ms P99 latency for order and fulfillment pipelines. Reduced deployment toil by 60% via internal Go tooling and improved API latency 30% using Kafka-based async processing and Redis caching.
Developed backend services and developer infrastructure for a telehealth platform, supporting 1M+ annual telehealth visits with sub-200ms P99 latency. Improved video connection success rates by 18% through WebRTC/STUN/TURN enhancements and reduced QA overhead by 40% using Python deployment automation.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Cornell University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2010 - 2014
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University, completed in 2014.
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