Summary
Hongta W is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Singapore with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native and bare-metal systems for AI and high-traffic production workloads. A dual Kubernetes-certified practitioner (CKA, CKAD) who has managed 100-node clusters and implemented CI/CD, observability, and HA Elasticsearch platforms across organizations including Apple, SenseTime, Grab, and Singapore Press Holdings. He combines deep Linux systems and networking skills with hands-on Golang and Python development to deliver automated, scalable deployments using Helm, Prometheus/Grafana, EFK, Longhorn, and Infrastructure-as-Code. Previously an AWS-certified architect, he has designed real-time cloud-edge AIOT systems and incremental learning pipelines for ReID, showing a rare mix of ML deployment and platform engineering expertise. Colleagues describe him succinctly by his GitHub motto—focus, understand, practice—which reflects his pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to reliability and observability.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer