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Bruce Wenliang Chen

@brucewenliangchen

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Platform Engineer at Conxai who cut monthly cloud spend from $30K+ to $20K+ with Kubernetes autoscaling improvements.

Germany

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What I'm looking for

I'm targeting Lead Platform Engineering roles where I can own infrastructure direction and build resilient, efficient systems for distributed environments.

At Conxai, I redesigned Kubernetes Karpenter autoscaling with right-sizing policies and cost-effective EC2 selection, reducing monthly cloud spend from $30K+ to $20K+. I also deployed an end-to-end Datadog observability tool covering metrics, distributed tracing, and logs.

At Personio, I led infrastructure improvements with Terraform and co-developed Go tooling for canary deployments. I also worked on serverless workloads with AWS ECS and Fargate, and improved Kubernetes reliability and developer workflows.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

Conxai

Apr 2026 - Jun 2026 (2 months)

Redesigned Kubernetes Karpenter auto-scaling strategy to reduce cloud spend and architected end-to-end observability with Datadog.

Kubernetes Karpenter AWS Datadog Observability Distributed Tracing Logging Metrics EC2 Cost Optimization

Platform Engineer - L5

Personio

Nov 2022 - Jan 2026 (3 years 2 months)

Led a cross-team refactoring of IAC structure for networking components, reducing lead time to production by 20%. Initiated a custom Go binary for canary deployment tracking and pioneered a serverless workload strategy using AWS ECS and Fargate.

Terraform AWS AWS ECS Fargate CDK TypeScript Go Kubernetes Canary Deployment CloudFormation Networking ALB Nginx Ingress Controller

Platform Engineer - L4

Personio

Jan 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 9 months)

Directed engineers to re-architect a local development automation script from Python to Go, cutting developer bug tickets by 50%. Engineered a custom Linkerd proxy Docker image that reduced Prometheus memory usage by 75%.

Go Python Docker Linkerd Prometheus Kubernetes CI CD Build Pipelines Developer Tooling

Backend Engineer - L4

Personio

Jul 2017 - Dec 2020 (3 years 5 months)

Pioneered a microservice using event-driven architecture, reducing data retrieval latency by 15%. Engineered robust public-facing APIs for secure and scalable enterprise integrations.

Microservices Event Driven Architecture API Development Distributed Systems Security Scalability

Software Engineer

Capps Solutions

Aug 2013 - Jul 2017 (3 years 11 months)

Developed custom web-based solutions to streamline digital transformation for traditional industries, automating workflows to reduce paper usage by up to 70% across 9 clients.

Web Development Workflow Automation Digital Transformation