Summary
Cheng Li is a hands-on system architect based in Florida with 12 years of middleware architecture experience and deep expertise automating CI/CD for OpenShift using containers, Kubernetes, Operators, Jenkins, Helm, Spinnaker, Terraform and Ansible. He architects secure, observable platforms—integrating HashiCorp Vault, Prometheus/Grafana, Elastic Stack and Sysdig—and has led lifecycle management for 60+ middleware products while managing Hadoop, Kafka and NiFi clusters for analytics and streaming. AWS and GCP certified, Cheng pairs 11 years of Java enterprise development with scripting and Golang to build tooling and custom integrations that simplify deployments and operations. Known for pragmatic Infrastructure as Code and performance-minded optimizations, he routinely bridges developer needs and platform reliability at scale.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Delaware
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Tsinghua University