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Pak Siu Leung

Fresh Meadows,NY

Summary

Experienced professional with a strong background in technology-related roles. Proficient in software development, system administration, and technical support. Skilled in problem-solving and optimizing performance. Capable of managing projects and collaborating effectively with teams. Committed to continuous learning and staying current with industry trends to contribute to organizational success.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead of DevOps & SRE

GETTR USA, Inc
New York, NY
06.2021 - 04.2024
  • I worked in GETTR USA, Inc., a social media platform. I joined the startup on the first day.
  • At the early stage, as a major DevOps & SRE, I was hands-on in setting up the AWS data center servers and standards, training and guiding developers to dockerized services & standards, implementing GitOps CI/CD framework and standards, setting up logging and monitoring alerts and automation, and integrating Identity and Access Management (IAM) standards. Also, at the platform launch stage, I am hands-on with the social media server, developed and changed the media upload server to achieve high-performance computing.
  • At the late stage, design and standardized Multi-Cloud Data center setup, Federated multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters with zero-trust IAM roles, Central credentials with multi-tenancy and namespaces framework, IaC standards based on Helm private registry and GitOps CI/CD framework and standards, Incident management with auto resolution pipeline, Vulnerability Scan framework, Cybersecurity framework and standards, Team training, and Organizational culture.
  • During my working period, I reported to the CTO.
  • The product that I have participated include:
    GETTR - https://gettr.com, ....
  • The technology working in GETTR includes: AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, Git, GitLab, Okta, Auth0, Keycloak, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Consul, Vault, KMS, VPCs, WAF, SAST, Imperva, Sumo Logic, Databricks, Prisma Cloud, ELK, PagerDuty, Keeper, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Notion, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Golang, NodeJS, JS, React, Lambda, Python, .... etc.

Head of DevOps

GTV MEDIA GROUP, INC.
New York, NY
06.2020 - 05.2021
  • I worked in GTV MEDIA GROUP, INC., a social media platform.
  • My duty was to provide total solutions for the company's product and project, using new technology to increase productivity and improve developer skills. Problem solving. Providing guidelines, training, and best practices to the team. Hands-on coding.
  • Lead in SRE team providing whole G series DevOps CI/CD automation, deployment, support, productivity, high availability, optimize deployment and development workflow, collaborate multi-regional team. Production rollout and performance tuning.
  • Lead in social networking builds up the whole system/software infrastructure and automation. Hands on high-performance tuning for media upload. Providing solutions and consulting for high-performance application turning.
  • Lead in Live streaming team providing solution for cascaded video conference, live streaming.
  • Communicate with a multi-regional team. During the period as a Software architect, I reported to the CTO.

System Architect

E-Business solutions limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
02.2017 - 12.2019
  • I worked in E-Business Solutions Limited (EBSL), an IT solution company.
  • My duty was to provide total solutions for the company's product and project, using new technology to increase productivity and improve developer skills. Hands-on coding.
  • Lead in providing software solutions, including cross-platform mobile architecture, offline-first system design, cloud-native microservice architecture, IoT PaaS solution. Build up continuous integration/delivery/improvement development environment, define automated testing strategy, coding practice, documentation, automatic code generation for microservice/UI, collaboration development practices, staff training, etc.
  • Communicate with my team members, vendor, and customer. During the period as a System architect, I reported to the CTO.
  • The products that I have participated in include: IoT Platform, Mobile facilities management system, Attendance, Hotel service provider, ...etc.
  • The technology working in EBSL includes: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Openshift, Serverless microservice, FaaS, CaaS, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Grafana, AWS CloudFormation, ECS, EC2, ELB, ECR, Fragate, etc. Google Cloud services, DevOps pipeline, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, GitLab, Slack, BitBucket, Katalon, Selenium, Appium, Node, Python, React, React Native, Redux, ES6/ES7, Lua, C#, R, R Studio, Go, Xamarin.Forms, Android, IoT Thingsboard, Spark, Node-RED, RFID, MQTT, RabbitMQ, Redis, Couchbase, Sync Gateway, JHipster, Spring Boot, Eureka, Zuul, Hibernate, JPA, Kafka, Consul, OAuth2, Keycloak, AWS Cognito, MySQL, PostgresSQL, MsSQL, Cassandra, , Swagger, LDAP,..etc

R&D Director

Shenzhen Zhijia Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen, China
01.2016 - 11.2016
  • I worked in Zhijia, a startup smart city IoT company. My duty was to provide solutions to meet our client's needs, communicate with my team members, design, develop, and maintain applications. The applications that I have participated in include: Smart Access Control solution based on web services server as a backbone, which is interacting with Access Control Hardware and Android/iPhone app technology.
  • Smart Access Control solution based on web services server as a backbone, which interacts with Access Control Hardware and Android/iPhone app technology. A property management system, a device cloud management system, a sonic communication application for Android/iPhone and embedded system, with Cube technology in a PostgreSQL server database, by setting up various dimensions and measures, to help residential users open a door/lock easily.
  • The tools I had used in Zhijia are Java, JNI, Spring, Spring Boot, ZooKeeper, Kafka, PHP, Yii, Ionic, Cordova, AngularJS, FreeBSD Jails, C, Objective-C, Redis, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, etc.

IT Director

Shenzhen Litian Poly Technology Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen, China
05.2015 - 12.2015
  • I worked in Litian, a mobile distribution and O2O online shopping company, during the period as an IT Director. I reported to the Vice President. My duty was to inspire and motivate my team members from negative to positive, communicate with my team members, design, develop, support, and maintain systems, such as online shopping performs, mobile case printing application, and agent management system.

Head of Web Based Department

Forerunner Technology Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
06.2013 - 03.2015
  • I worked in Forerunner, a social eLearning solution company. During the period as the Head of the Web-Based Department, I reported to the CEO. My duty was to provide solutions to meet our client's needs, communicate with my team members, design, develop, and maintain applications. The applications that I have participated in include: a social eLearning platform, an e-Portfolio application, a classroom live teaching application, and a church planner platform, to provide integrated learning solutions for schools. Outcome-based, cross-platform, that promotes connectivity, collaboration with creativity, and critical thinking seamlessly in the classroom.
    The tools I had used in Forerunner are Java, Spring, PHP, Yii, Go, .NET, C#, FreeBSD Jails, AWS, C, Objective-C, Redis, Memcached, MySQL, etc.

System Analyst

MTel Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
05.2010 - 06.2013
  • I worked in MTel, a digital solution provider company. During the period as a System Analyst, I reported to the CTO. My duty was to collaborate with project team members and key client stakeholders to scope out projects. Define the technical and solution architecture for a phased software development delivery, and ensure proper timelines are met during the delivery process. Communicate with my team members, design, develop, and maintain applications. The applications that I have participated in include: Hong Kong Airport My Flight application, CLP SharePoint team site application, 3 Macau web platform, Vietnamobile digital system platform, Standard Chartered Digital Branch...etc.
    The tools I had used in MTel are PHP, Yii, CakePHP, Java, Spring, Play Framework, .NET, C#, SharePoint, Python, Memcached, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.

Senior Programmer

SunnyVision Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
09.2008 - 05.2010
  • I worked in SunnyVision, a hosting company. During the period as a Senior Programmer, I reported to the Project Manager. Handling web programming, website construction, and database administration. The website applications that I have participated in include: Wilson Parking, GOME, Aircrew Officers Association, Film Services Office, etc. Completed more than 50 web applications.
    The tools I used in SunnyVision are PHP, CakePHP, Zend Framework, Java, Struts, jQuery, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

Education

Associate of Applied Science - Computer Science

The University of Guangdong Broadcasting
China
07-1999

Skills

  • Team Management
  • Organizational Development
  • People Management
  • Budget Control
  • Project Management
  • Issues Resolution
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Contract and Vendor Management
  • Staff Development
  • Information Technology Management
  • Hiring and Retention
  • Strategic Planning
  • Budget Management
  • Creativity and Innovation

Languages

English
Professional
Chinese (Cantonese)
Native/ Bilingual
Chinese (Mandarin)
Native/ Bilingual

Affiliations

  • Workout everyday or week, I love basketball/dance/gym/running/swimming/hiking/gym.
  • Love to communicating with different types of people.
  • Like to read philosophy and psychology

Timeline

Technical Lead of DevOps & SRE

GETTR USA, Inc
06.2021 - 04.2024

Head of DevOps

GTV MEDIA GROUP, INC.
06.2020 - 05.2021

System Architect

E-Business solutions limited
02.2017 - 12.2019

R&D Director

Shenzhen Zhijia Information Technology Co., Ltd.
01.2016 - 11.2016

IT Director

Shenzhen Litian Poly Technology Co., Ltd.
05.2015 - 12.2015

Head of Web Based Department

Forerunner Technology Limited
06.2013 - 03.2015

System Analyst

MTel Limited
05.2010 - 06.2013

Senior Programmer

SunnyVision Limited
09.2008 - 05.2010

Associate of Applied Science - Computer Science

The University of Guangdong Broadcasting
Pak Siu Leung