Clarivate

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Horizons

- Lead an engineering team, I empower team to deliver high quality, safety and performance client-facing product, from design to production, and meanwhile, build a lean team by coaching, delegation, goals settings. I helped standardize development, delivery and maintenance through implementation of automatic CI/CD, observability tools.
- As part of the management team, I help on team roadmap definition, career path, budget plan.
- Help team members grow and guide them to achieve their goals.

Engineering Director

- Manage a dev team to design, develop and maintain a SaaS platform to facilitate company's business successfully.
- Platform architecture design to ensure optimal performance, good flexibility and expandability. 
- Containerized projects and improve DevOps to make CI/CD more smoothly.
- Set up workflow, best practices, and improve it constantly to make team work more efficiently.
- Improve data security measures constantly. GDPR compliance.
- Recruitment, performance reviews, career paths plan, make technical team more Agile and Lean.

Senior Engineering Manager

Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company

Led team to develop video platform(https://video.alexanderstreet.com), more focus on back-end service part, the entire platform is built on AWS cloud services, participated architecture designing, wrote up technical specifications, set up coding standard, code review, implemented platform authorization & authentication, content retrieve, full-text search, automation tests and deployment via Jenkins CI, worked in Agile way with teams oversea
Technologies:
Python 3.6, Flask, Docker, GraphQL, Unit Tests, AWS CloudFormation, Lambdas, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Kibana, SQS, Jenkins.

Technical Team Lead

I worked as Information Architect, the major responsibilities are:
- Participate and offer architecture design for the platform, https://search.alexanderstreet.com.
- Write up technical specification.
- Come up with technical solutions for major features implementation.
- Analyze and improve platforms performance.
- Expose products content to public on Google, and enhance page rank, SEO.

Information Architect

Serve as tech-lead to guide the team work with Production Dept to develop products, (in this period, I obtained Scrum Master Certification), worked in Agile way to create a new platform for better supporting products content maintanence and publish.
Technologies:
LAMP, Drupal 7, Symfony 2, Doctrine, Composer, RESTful API, Test Driven Development(TDD), Solr(Full-text search), HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Git, Jenkins CI, Selenium.

Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain the platform for publishing audio & video products.
- Create customer usage data statistics admin platform.
Technologies:
LAMP, Zend Framework, CodeIgniter, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Prototype, script.aculo.us, Xapian, Eclipse, Subversion, Git, TRAC.

Senior Software Engineer

Urbian, Inc.

Served as head of web development at Urbian, responsible for designing and developing the location-based Social Networking Service website, which is the main service of company, using PHP, Smarty, Javascript, AJAX, EXT, CSS, Mysql, Oracle, SqlRelay, ImageMagick, Sphinx and Apache under linux(Ubuntu) system. And also participated in mobile application development on Google Android using JAVA and Eclipse.
Built and managed the development team for company.

Head of Web Development

Fusion Systems Co.,Ltd.

Worked here briefly as web developer. I was tasked with developing the website of ImagineChina’s 8unit for purchasing pictures online, using PHP, Smarty, Oracle and Apache as webserver under linux system.

Web Developer

SkyMiracle Network Information Technology Co.,Ltd.

I worked on developing and maintaining the company's main product (WorldPost Mail System), using LAMP. 
Participated in developing Shanghai Home and School Interaction platform, using JSP, Oracle, PLSQL, Weblogic and AJAX. 
Worked on HSBC Barcode Instruction Tracking System, using JAVA, SWT, DB2, javascript, Eclipse. 
Development and maintenance of bill management platform for citizen’s mailbox system and developed some reusable javascript library for company.

Software Engineer

Shanghai Institute of Computing Technology

I developed Shanghai CAST Software Corporation website, participated in developing information management system of Japanese school and Shanghai foreign economic and trade website, and worked on online shopping website, using LAMP, javascript, CSS, ASP.

20 years of experience in software, roles including engineering director/manager, technical team lead, full-stack engineer, scrum master, mentor and information architect. Especially in leading a team to design and develop a variety of projects in HR & Payroll system, online publishing, streaming video and audio, retail, payment, email system, social networking, etc.

I'm passionate, quick-learning, and self-motivated person. Good experience and knowledge at internet related development.

Skillsets includes internet technology, full cycle of web development, agile methodologies, software architecture, AWS, Aliyun cloud services, automated QA and maintenance, team build and management.

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