Linda Xu
Vice President, Tech - Data Platform
Glendora, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLinda Xu is a seasoned technology leader with over 10 years focused on data platforms and database engineering, currently serving as Vice President, Tech - Data Platform at Ticketmaster. She has driven large-scale cloud migrations and DevOps-first database automation, pioneering DBaaS tooling and infrastructure-as-code practices used company-wide. A repeat industry speaker (AWS re:Invent 2016, MongoDB World 2014) and Percona Live committee member, she blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership across global ticketing systems and Olympic-scale events. Her open-source contributions to Terraform's AWS provider—extending Aurora support, cross-region replicas, parameter management and failover features—reflect deep expertise in cloud database reliability and automation. Based in Glendora, CA, she is known for turning complex legacy architectures into resilient, automated cloud services and for pragmatic innovations that bridge SRE, DBA and developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Shanghai University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
aurora10
terraformer10
databases10
infrastructure-as-code10
infrastructure10
go10
cloud-services10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
terraform10
database10
cloud-manager9
manage9
cicd6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
hashicorp/terraform
May 2016 - Jan 2017
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 30 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Linda primarily contributed to the AWS provider within the Terraform repository, focusing on extending support for Amazon RDS Aurora clusters. Their work included implementing features like parameter group management, enhanced monitoring, and failover priority. Additionally, the user added functionality for creating cross-region read replica clusters. The contributions centered on modifying existing resources and adding new functionalities related to RDS Aurora instances.
versionedconfiguration-filescloud-managementawscloud
ticketmaster/terraform
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and combining infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Contributions:12 commits, 22 pushes, 23 branches in 1 month
devopsinfrastructureinfrastructure-as-codeawsterraform
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