Summary
Winston Hsieh is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nearly a decade of software engineering experience, combining deep backend and cloud expertise with a background in mobile and IoT systems. He has led production-grade Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure), built self-hosted Cassandra and EMQX clusters, and automated scalable microservices platforms using Terraform, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions. At Circle he now focuses on multi-chain blockchain infrastructure, validator operations, and secure smart contract deployment workflows, bringing practical cryptography key management into SRE practices. Previously he accelerated deployments from hours to minutes and implemented advanced autoscaling (HPA, KEDA, Karpenter) and observability stacks (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch) across 25+ services. Winston’s roots in iOS app development and Solidity/Pariy private chain work give him a unique end-to-end perspective from mobile clients to blockchain nodes. He is active on GitHub and Medium, blending system architecture and hands-on implementation with a knack for turning research into repeatable, production-ready patterns.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at National Chung Cheng University