Alicia Zheng
DevOps Consultant at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Herndon, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAlicia Zheng is a DevOps consultant with nine years of engineering experience and over six years focused on AWS, currently helping teams modernize infrastructure and deployment at Amazon Web Services. She has driven measurable cost, time, and waste reductions—leading containerization of HPC batch jobs to cut EC2 spend by 63% and redesigning pipelines that removed days of cross-account deployment and eliminated scheduled downtime. Alicia pairs hands-on backend development with open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Apache APISIX, where she enhanced stream subsystems, added multi-platform service discovery, and integrated Kafka for robust error logging. Comfortable across infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability stacks, she’s delivered multi-region packaging optimization that reduced air shipments by up to 27% and cut millions of tons of packaging waste annually. A mentor and pragmatic problem-solver, she combines a Computer Science and Psychology background to improve developer workflows and team safety programs. Her GitHub motto—“Brave the shadows. Find the truth.”—underscores a curiosity-driven approach to debugging complex distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Advanced Studies Diploma, High School, Advanced Studies Diploma at Cave Spring High SchoolCore Course in Game Development, Core Course in Game Development at DIS - Study AbroadHigh School, Advanced Studies Diploma, High School, Advanced Studies Diploma at Roanoke Valley Governor's SchoolCertificate in Business Fundamentals, Certificate in Business Fundamentals at University of Virginia
English
Stackoverflow
171reputation
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9answers
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Github Skills (25)
kafka10
lua10
service-discovery10
api-gateway10
reverse-proxy9
kubernetes9
microservices-application9
api-management9
kubernetes-pods9
api9
cloud-native9
microservices9
nginx9
docker8
luajit8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
apache/apisix
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 9 commits, 27 PRs in 29 days
Contributions summary:Alicia primarily contributed to the Apache APISIX API gateway by implementing new features and enhancements for the stream subsystem. These contributions involved supporting various service discovery mechanisms, including Eureka, DNS, Nacos, and Kubernetes. Additionally, the user worked on integrating Kafka for error logging and improving the functionality of existing plugins like `consumer-restriction` and `limit-count`. Their work also includes refactoring code, and fixing bugs related to header retrieval and configuration.
api-gatewaynginxserverlessapisixreverse-proxy
ronething/mp-music
Apr 2019 - May 2022
微信公众号 音乐 API 接入
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
apiwehcatpython3
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