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Shilai Lu

Software Engineer
Redmond,WA

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Software Engineer

Google
12.2022 - Current

Data Plane Scalability Optimization

  • Redesigned the backend data structure to efficiently support resource-intensive queries for 1 million records, resulting in a 2x improvement in UI load speed based on UI Analytics.
  • Seamlessly led the migration to the new query backend, overseeing the entire process from planning to execution. This involved coordinating with cross-functional teams, ensuring minimal disruption to ongoing operations.

UI Analytics

  • Designed and implemented a monitoring service for UI operating across diverse environments, supporting a daily active user base of 50K.
  • Implemented and optimized alerting and dashboarding systems, harnessing insights from logs collected through UI analytics to drive proactive monitoring and decision-making.

Software Engineer

Amazon
10.2019 - 12.2022

Vendor Referencing System

  • Led the deprecation of critical micro-services serving millions of dollars in revenue for thousands of clients after a decade of operation, collaborating with multiple clients to migrate product information from internal Amazon systems to external vendor platforms.

Supplier Pack Hierarchy

  • Designed and backfilled a new database to rekey trillions of cost data to the new pack hierarchy to eliminate the identifier gap between Amazon and 3p vendors.

AWS Enterprise OpenID Client Registration

  • Designed and implemented a new OIDC client registration micro service to provide the SSO federation for most popular 1st party AWS Enterprise Applications at initial launch.

Education

Master of Science -

Washington University in St.Louis
St Louis, MO
08.2014 - 05.2016

Bachelor of Science -

Beijing University of Posts And Telecommunications
Beijing
09.2010 - 05.2014

Timeline

Software Engineer

Google
12.2022 - Current

Software Engineer

Amazon
10.2019 - 12.2022

Master of Science -

Washington University in St.Louis
08.2014 - 05.2016

Bachelor of Science -

Beijing University of Posts And Telecommunications
09.2010 - 05.2014
Shilai LuSoftware Engineer