Alan Ning

Software Engineer / Problem Solver

Work

Software Architect

– Present

Founding engineer of the Manifold.ai platform, responsible for designing and building core systems across the stack.

  • Architected platform infrastructure spanning bioinformatics data pipelines, AI security, and scalable cloud networking.

  • Built developer tooling that enables LLM agents to iterate safely, accelerating engineering productivity across the team.

Staff Reliability Engineer

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I create scalability solutions for Tenable.io.

  • Designed and implemented a custom Elasticsearch sharding layer to break out a petabytes-scale monolith database into an infinitely scalable number of databases.

  • Implemented a caching layer for the Tenable.io edge using Cloudflare Worker. This layer handles over 5000 requests per sec, and saves petabytes of bandwidth per year.

Site Reliability Engineer

Uptime2020 Consultant
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Supported various election-related SaaS companies to ensure their product security and reliability during the 2020 US election cycle.

Site Reliability Engineer

I began as the SRE for Caseflow and left having architected the VA's migration to AWS.

  • Guided the VA cloud migration effort, including Direct Connect configurations, network performance analysis, and VPC design that scales for thousands of tenants.

  • Led the SRE team for the Veterans Appeals modernization effort (Caseflow).

  • Migrated the 30 year old Oracle database that holds all Veterans Appeals to the cloud using AWS DMS.

Technical Lead

I began as a React/Node.js coach and left as the Technical Lead on the Disability Case Processing System (DCPS).

  • Led the Social Security Disability modernization project, integrating a microservice architecture with legacy mainframe systems.

  • Delivered a highly visible MVP under a tight deadline, which led to successful product shipment across many states.

Technical Lead Engineer

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I began as an embedded C++ developer and left as a full stack software developer.

  • Wrote high performance C++ code for embedded systems, with a focus on memory safety and concurrency.

  • Developed applications across a wide range of platforms, from Android and CUDA to Node/React web apps.

  • Grew into a technical lead role across multiple projects, including cybersecurity research.

Education

Johns Hopkins University

Master in Computer Science
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bachelor in Computer Science / Economics (Summa Cum Laude)
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Skills

AI & LLM Engineering

  • Pydantic AI
  • OpenAI
  • MCP
  • Agent Evaluation
  • Bedrock

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • ECS
  • RDS
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • Packer

Backend Development

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • SQLAlchemy
  • PostgreSQL
  • Snowflake

Data Engineering

  • Airflow
  • dbt
  • Prefect
  • OpenSearch
  • Pandas

Observability

  • OpenTelemetry
  • Logfire
  • Structlog

Systems Programming

  • Modern C++
  • C