Summary
Zhiyuan Li is a Site Reliability Engineer with 8 years of cloud-native experience building resilient microservices, containerized platforms, IaC, and CI/CD pipelines for scale—most recently supporting TikTok's recommendation infrastructure. Formerly a Cloud Architect at AWS Professional Services and Premium Support, he brings deep expertise in Terraform, AWS CDK/CloudFormation, Kubernetes/ECS, and serverless patterns, backed by certification as an IaC subject matter expert. Comfortable coding in Java, Python, and TypeScript, he blends software design with SRE principles to automate reliability and incident response. His background in cybersecurity and a master’s in Information Assurance give him a practical edge in secure-by-design architectures and threat-aware operations. Outside core SRE work he explores Big Data and ML integrations, and maintains an active GitHub/portfolio reflecting hands-on tooling and automation projects.
8 years of coding experience
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Hunan University
Chinese, English, Chinese