Wenlan W.
About Wenlan W.
Wenlan W. is a Data Infra Engineer II at Flexport, with a background in software engineering and data infrastructure from companies like TuSimple and VMware.
Current Role at Flexport
Wenlan W. joined Flexport in June 2023 as a Data Infra Engineer II. In this role, she works in a hybrid model based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her responsibilities include managing and optimizing data infrastructure to support Flexport's logistics and supply chain operations.
Previous Experience at TuSimple
Before joining Flexport, Wenlan W. worked at TuSimple, an autonomous trucking technology company. During her time at TuSimple from 2022 to 2023, she held two positions. Initially, she was a Software Engineer in San Diego for three months, subsequently transitioning to a Data Infra Engineer in Santa Clara County. In these roles, she was responsible for provisioning and managing a distributed and elastic Airflow orchestration engine on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and deploying a highly scalable SQL query engine on AWS CloudFormation and EKS.
Education and Academic Background
Wenlan W. has a robust educational background in electrical and electronics engineering. She obtained her Master of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Cornell University as well as a Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell Tech, both completed in 2022. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Wuhan University, where she studied from 2017 to 2021. Wenlan also completed her high school education at Tsinghua University High School from 2014 to 2017.
Internships and Research Roles
Wenlan W. has gathered substantial experience through various internships and research positions. She interned as a Software Engineer at VMware in Beijing for eight months and as a Research and Development Engineer Intern at Baidu, Inc. for three months. Additionally, she served as a Summer Research Intern at the University of California San Diego and Imperial College London, gaining international research exposure. Wenlan also contributed as a Research Assistant at Wuhan University, where she held positions in 2019 and again in 2019-2020.
Technical Achievements and Projects
Throughout her career, Wenlan W. has achieved significant technical milestones. She implemented a distributed and scalable Dagster data orchestration engine using AWS EKS and Terraform, with integrations into Datadog, S3, Snowflake, Buildkite, PostgreSQL, PagerDuty, and Slack. Wenlan enhanced data security by implementing ACL/RBAC and comprehensive data leak prevention through Cyral, managing access for over 200 users and various data resources. She also established a provisioning pipeline leveraging GitHub Actions, Terraform, and AWS to accelerate development speed.