Ta-Liang Lu

Software engineer, 🇹🇼

📝 Summary

A versatile & 2-years working experience of back-end developer in software development industry.
Proficient in Java & Spring, Python & Flask framework, with practical experience of integrating 3rd party APIs.
Experienced in designing both web application & iOS App, and implementing Vue.js framework & Python connecting with MSFT & GOOG APIs.
Skilled in troubleshooting deployments issues, and optimizing efficiency of application performance.
Adept in writing scripts to streamline the process of CI/CD pipelines.

🤖 Programming languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, MatLab, Shell Script, Golang
🏗️ Frameworks: Flask, Vue.js, React Native, Spring, Hibernate, ZK Framework
⚙️ Operating System: : MacOS, Windows, Linux, Unix, Ubuntu
⛁ Databases: MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, SQLAlchemy
</> API Tools: PostMan, Ngrok
🐳 Containerization tools: Kubernetes, Docker, RKE2
🔄 Automation: Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD
✍ Source Control System: SVN, Git, GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket
📦 Cloud tools: AWS CodeBuild, S3, EC2, ECR, GCP

Backend Engineer - JGNet Jan 2024 – May 2024

Developed microservices-based RESTful APIs (Python & Flask) serving members’ data to front-end (JavaScript & Vue.js), resulting in an improvement of application performance.
Designed databases (MySQL) and table structures obeying architecture methodology for web apps.
Employed Lua Script alongside Redis caching layer to archive concurrent members’ chat histories, alleviating database load and boosting response times by up to 40%.
Deploy Ngrok to securely expose locally hosted web applications, enabling seamless integration with Neweb notification APIs, achieving improved user engagement and experience.
Collaborated with front-end developers to integrate backend content sharing functionality.

DevOps Engineer - @Hytech Technology Ltd Apr 2023 - Oct 2023

Designed the program of querying multiple MySQL databases’ results, and automatically saved it into both success and error logs, reducing internal members’ manual query works to save time.
Created cron jobs (Pipeline scripts & Shell Scripts) to schedule backend tasks, and automated deployment assignments for multiple repositories on Jenkins platform.
Developed optimized and compressed Docker images, seamlessly delivered to Amazon ECR, resulting in a notable decrease in overall deployment time by 20%.
Designed automated scripts to perform data comparison tasks, reducing human errors (Python).

Software Engineer - @Dell Technologies Nov 2021 – Dec 2022

Delivered 4 functional specifications of business requirements in VxRail HCI system, led to an enhancement in stakeholders’ satisfaction across enterprises.
Redesigned the security functions with Golang to decrease operational maintenance costs.
Developed 3 data retrieval APIs with Java to reduce the upgrade time of VxRail HCI by 8%.
Refactored both Kubernetes and RKE2 syntax commands, and resolved the failure of k8s image build to improve system stability and reliability.

Software Engineer intern - @RealRate Jul 2021 – Sep 2021

Extended 8 numeric equations of AI rating model, and evaluated the financial strength of US companies with Python.
Manipulated APIs to automatically retrieve data from US Edgar database, and merged manual json files, resulting in comprehensive financial analysis and actionable insights.

Software Engineer Intern - @Moovo Mobility Ltd May 2020 – Sep 2020

Created 3 TaiShin bank’s APIS to request credit card transaction page
Generated API units testing via Postman, and refactored Moovo project coding base
Developed credit card transaction page by JavaScript, HTML, CSS & BootStrap

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science + Artificial Intelligence
University of Nottingham - Nottingham, United Kingdom (Sep.2017 - Jun.2021)

🔠 Language proficiency:
- IELTS Overall: 7 / 9, Speaking: 7.5 / 9,
- Japanese Language: JLPT N1
- TOEIC L: 450, R: 435 (Total: 885)
🏅 Award: Ningbo Government Scholarship for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Students 2018 – 2019 (1st class in Computer Science Department), University of Nottingham, Ningbo – China