Ethan Wu
Software Engineer (Backend)
- Shanghai, China
Education
Eastbay University · M.S. in Computer Science
2020.09 – 2022.06Lakeshore University of Technology · B.S. in Software Engineering
2016.09 – 2020.06Experience
Nimbus Cloud Technologies · Software Engineer II
2022.07 – Present- Designed an event-driven order pipeline on Kafka processing 1.5M events per day with p99 latency under 120 ms
- Led the migration of 30 services from a monolith to Kubernetes, cutting deployment time from 40 to 6 minutes
- Reduced cloud spend by 27% through autoscaling policies and right-sizing, saving about $180K per year
- Mentored 3 junior engineers and introduced design reviews, reducing production incidents by 35%
Brightpath Software · Software Engineering Intern
2021.06 – 2021.09- Built a GraphQL gateway prototype that was adopted by 3 internal teams
- Wrote integration tests that raised API test coverage from 42% to 81%
Projects
Distributed Rate Limiter · Open-source author
2023.03 – 2023.08- Token-bucket rate limiter in Go with Redis Cluster support; 900+ stars on GitHub
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate2023.11
Skills
- Languages
Go, Java, Python, SQL, TypeScript
- Systems
Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform
- Spoken
Mandarin (native), English (fluent, IELTS 7.5)
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