Alan Ning

Site Reliability Engineer, United States Digital Service - Department of Veterans Affairs

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

• Guided the VA cloud migration effort, which includes 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).
• Designed and built a resilient cloud infrastructure for Caseflow that integrated with the VA's legacy systems.
• Built a CI/CD pipeline that allowed daily production deployments, which increased the team's velocity.
• Migrated the 30 year old Oracle database that holds all Veterans Appeals to the cloud using AWS DMS.
• Automated my job away.

Technical Lead, United States Digital Service - Social Security Administration

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

• Led and developed the Social Security Disability modernization project using microservice architecture with an HTML5 SPA frontend.
• Integrated the modern microservice architecture with legacy mainframe systems and mailing machines.
• Delivered a highly visible MVP under a tight deadline, which led to successful product shipment across many states.

Technical Lead Engineer, Boeing / Digital Receiver Technology

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

• Wrote high performance C++ code with the focus of minimizing memory leaks, stack/heap corruptions, or race conditions.
• Developed multiple applications, both native and web-based, including technologies such as Java SOAP, C# WinForms, CassandraDB, Android, NVIDIA CUDA Framework and Node/React/AngularJS.
• Performed cybersecurity research that involved forwarding mobile IP packets using ARP poisoning.
• Became a technical lead for a wide variety of projects.

Johns Hopkins University

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute