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Mei Zhang

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Salesforce

Summary

Experience

Senior Infrastructure EngineerSalesforce
San Francisco, CAMar 2022Present
  • Led the migration of critical on-premise services to AWS, reducing operational costs by 20% and improving system uptime to 99.99%.
  • Developed and maintained IaC templates using Terraform for over 50 AWS resources, enabling automated provisioning and configuration management.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI for infrastructure deployments, cutting release cycles by 30% and minimizing human error.
  • Optimized AWS resource utilization through right-sizing instances and implementing auto-scaling policies, resulting in a 15% reduction in monthly cloud spend.
  • Designed and deployed a centralized logging and monitoring solution using ELK stack and Prometheus, enhancing incident response time by 25%.
Infrastructure EngineerSlack
San Francisco, CAJul 2019Feb 2022
  • Managed and provisioned cloud infrastructure across AWS, supporting over 100 microservices for a platform with millions of daily active users.
  • Automated routine infrastructure tasks using Python and Bash scripting, saving approximately 15 hours of manual effort per week.
  • Collaborated with development teams to integrate infrastructure provisioning into application deployment workflows, reducing environment setup time by 40%.
  • Maintained and improved Kubernetes clusters for container orchestration, ensuring high availability and scalability for critical services.
  • Participated in on-call rotation to troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, achieving an average MTTR of under 30 minutes.

Projects

Education

Stanford UniversityMaster of Science in Computer Science
Stanford, CASep 2017Jun 2019
  • Thesis on 'Optimizing Container Orchestration for Cloud-Native Applications'.
  • Awarded Dean's Fellowship for academic excellence.
  • GPA: 3.9/4.0

Skills

Cloud Platforms
AWSGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Azure
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
TerraformCloudFormationAnsiblePacker
CI/CD & DevOps Tools
JenkinsGitLab CIDockerKubernetesPrometheusGrafana
Scripting & Programming
PythonBashGoYAML
Operating Systems & Networking
Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL)Windows ServerVPCDNSLoad Balancing