Summary
Hubert Wong is a Senior Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience building and optimizing observability and monitoring platforms, currently driving cost, reliability, and automation improvements for DIRECTV. He has hands-on expertise with Prometheus, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Kubernetes, and has a track record of reducing AWS spend through ultrawarm OpenSearch tiers, ILM policies, containerization, and instance consolidation. Hubert builds practical tooling and migrations—everything from custom exporters and a React Prometheus UI to prototypes evaluating Amazon Managed Prometheus—and often bridges engineering and operations as an on-call subject-matter expert. His background spans backend APIs, search, and infrastructure automation (Ansible, Helm, Terraform, Docker), and he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and observability born from both development and QA leadership roles early in his career. Based in Rosemead, CA, he combines deep systems experience with a tendency to prototype before committing to major platform changes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego