Alan Huang
Senior Advanced Cloud Data & Database Architect
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Huang is a Senior Advanced Cloud Solution Architect specializing in data, databases, and AI with nearly three decades of hands-on experience and nine years focused on cloud-native architectures. Based in San Jose, he leads enterprise database migrations and platform builds at Deltek—driving RDBMS to AWS PostgreSQL moves, Snowflake/Redshift data warehouse designs, and enterprise Oracle/MS SQL solutions for SaaS products. Previously he architected hybrid cloud and HIPAA-compliant database systems at Stanford Health Care and managed large-scale Oracle deployments at NASA and Cisco, blending DBA rigor with containerized and Kubernetes deployments. He is a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs low-level performance tuning and VLDB expertise with strategic cloud transformations, and has contributed to open-source conversational AI tooling by improving Elasticsearch-based entity resolution in Cisco’s MindMeld. Known for building repeatable DB lifecycle, refresh and distributed ELT infrastructures, he helps teams convert complex regulatory and product requirements into resilient, high-performance data platforms.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at New York Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Tamkang UniversityStanford University Technical Leaders - STLP, Stanford University Technical Leaders - STLP at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
python10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
natural-language-processing9
apidoc9
api9
nlp9
information-retrieval8
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
cisco/mindmeld
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
An Open Source Conversational AI Platform for Deep-Domain Voice Interfaces and Chatbots.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 124 commits, 35 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to enhancing the entity resolver component, focusing on improvements for text search capabilities. They implemented and refactored Elasticsearch query syntax, including character n-gram matching and combining exact and fuzzy matching. The user also made changes to the synonym handling, including data ingestion and integration with the Question Answerer's search functionality. Furthermore, they updated the knowledge base schema and search APIs.
conversational-ai
CiscoDevNet/mindmeld-blueprints
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Blueprint applications for MindMeld conversational platform
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
conversationalmindmeldblueprint
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