Nicole Han
Software Engineer at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicole Han is a software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and full-stack products, currently on Meta’s engineering team in Palo Alto. She combines deep Kubernetes and cloud-provider expertise—contributing to flagship OSS projects like the Kubernetes AWS and vSphere cloud providers—with product-focused backend and frontend work from roles at Airbnb and Zillow. Her background spans M.S. in CS from USC and a high-achieving B.S. from BUPT, reflecting strong academic rigor and cross-border education. Comfortable moving between Go-based cloud systems and Java/React product code, she’s shipped reliability fixes, dependency upgrades, and performance-minded features in production. An interesting thread through her career is a consistent focus on platform stability and developer-facing components, making her a go-to engineer for hard-to-reproduce infrastructure issues.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's Degree, E-Commerce Engineering, 3.92/4.0, First-Class Honors, Bachelor's Degree, E-Commerce Engineering, 3.92/4.0, First-Class Honors at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsBachelor of Engineering - BE, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce, 3.92/4.0, First-Class Honors, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce, 3.92/4.0, First-Class Honors at Queen Mary University of London
Chinese, English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
vsphere10
gcloud10
cloud-infrastructure10
vmware10
go10
aws10
cloud-hosting10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-services10
k8s10
kr8s10
package-management9
file-management9
dependency-management9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/cloud-provider-vsphere
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Kubernetes Cloud Provider for vSphere https://cloud-provider-vsphere.sigs.k8s.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 91 reviews, 55 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nicole primarily focused on maintaining and updating the Kubernetes cloud provider for vSphere. They reverted a module version to an older version, indicating a potential issue needing to be addressed. Further contributions included fixing a nil pointer error in the NSXT connector manager, which improves the stability of the cloud provider. The user also bumped the Kubernetes version to v1.19 and v1.20.2, demonstrating responsibility for keeping dependencies up-to-date.
kubernetesvspherecloud-providersvmware
kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Cloud provider for AWS
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:79 reviews, 12 commits, 16 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicole primarily contributed to the AWS cloud provider implementation for Kubernetes. Their work focused on creating and initializing core components, including the AWS cloud instance and the Instances interface. Further contributions involved the initial setup of the configuration to support the cluster's features. This also included updates to the go.mod file, demonstrating knowledge of dependency management within the project.
awsk8s-sig-cloud-provider
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