Liping Sun
Software Engineering Manager at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiping Sun is a Software Engineering Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building scalable, secure web and cloud systems at Palo Alto Networks. She combines hands-on expertise in Node.js and Java Spring REST APIs with front-end skills in Angular, WebSocket and modern ECMAScript, plus practical strengths across SQL/NoSQL, Big Data, networking and information security. Her career progressed from hands-on engineering to leadership roles, driving architecture and delivery as a Principal and Sr. Staff engineer before moving into management. Early work includes restructuring an IoT Smart City app into microservices, deploying Kubernetes with autoscaling and exploring serverless platforms to cut operational costs—an indicator of her systems-level thinking and cost-aware engineering. She holds an MS in Software Engineering and a background in information security, blending academic rigor with production-proven DevOps and cross-platform development experience.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityBachelor's degree, Information Security, Bachelor's degree, Information Security at Shanghai University of Electric Power
Github Skills (65)
thunderbird10
google-cloud-platform9
terraform9
google-cloud9
terraform-provider9
buster8
python8
cloud-platform8
graph8
proxy7
vpn7
tunnel7
docker7
gitlab7
aws7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
LipingSun/LinkedIn-Mimic
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
LipingSun/ideaSharing
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:102 commits, 78 pushes, 12 branches in 26 days
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