Summary
Lili Peng is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native, resilient distributed systems from Irvine, CA. She has progressed from intern to technical lead and staff roles across Venafi, CyberArk, and now Palo Alto Networks, with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Java Spring Boot, Golang, microservices, and observability tooling like Prometheus/Datadog. Her work spans databases and messaging (Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ) and she applies hexagonal architecture and GraphQL federation patterns to deliver scalable, test-driven solutions. Comfortable across languages from C and C# for agent-level work to modern cloud stacks, she combines system-level insight with pragmatic automation and testing discipline. Notably, she has driven cross-platform server agent development early in her career and transitioned that low-level knowledge into large-scale cloud-native design and performance focus.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Weber State University
English, Chinese, Chinese