Austin Xu - Resume

Cloud Platform Engineering Leader | 20+ Years Experience

📧 austin.xyz@gmail.com | 📱 (408) 797-7545 🔗 LinkedIn | 💻 GitHub

Experience​

eBay Inc, San Jose​

Software Development Manager - Cloud Fleet Management | Sept 2023 - Present

• Led Cloud Platform teams to migrate 5,000+ applications to Kubernetes
• Built and scaled K8s infrastructure: 3 regions, 25 AZs, 100+ clusters, 2M+ pods
• Applied SRE best practices (SLO/SLI, MTTD/MTTR, incident/capacity management)
• Delivered AZ/Region auto-scaling and traffic rebalancing for managed-stack applications
• Managed full K8s cluster lifecycle across dev/staging/prod/PCI environments

2025-2026 Key Outcomes:

• DoJ & Jade programs: Accelerated SDDZ AZ and DCPX cluster stand-up
• Global team expansion: Established hubs in Europe and India, hired 8+ engineers
• AI innovation: Built 6+ Claude-based hiring skills, piloted spec-driven development

Software Development Manager - Cloud App Lifecycle | Feb 2017 - Aug 2023

• Led global teams (San Jose & Shanghai) to migrate 5,000+ apps from OpenStack to Kubernetes
• Developed end-to-end CI/CD platform using Tekton pipelines
• Owned auto-deployment platform: 35,000+ deployments/week across 20,000+ app pools
• Built self-healing remediation system (LOM) using observability signals
• Drove regional data center migration (PHX exit, RENO launch) with zero downtime

eBay China Center of Excellence, Shanghai​

Software Development Manager - Cloud | Feb 2012 - Feb 2017

• Led 20 engineers to architect and deliver eBay's internal cloud platforms (IaaS & PaaS)
• Designed MongoDB-based Configuration Management System (CMS)
• Built Zebra: Fully automated provisioning system (reduced provisioning from days to 10 minutes)
• Drove eBay China Innovation Program, won multiple Skunkworks awards

Team Lead - Platform DevEx Tools | June 2007 - Feb 2012

• Built Platform Development Experience Tools team (8 members)
• Delivered Raptor IDE, optimized eBay IDE, wizards for frontend/service/database frameworks
• Improved productivity for 2,000+ eBay developers
• Developed eBay APIs and SDKs for third-party developers

Mainet System Inc., Shanghai​

Project Manager / Architect | April 2000 - April 2007

• Architected RAD tools for web applications (Spring, Hibernate, Struts, SOA)
• Built web-based ERP products (CRM, HRM, CMS) for 40+ enterprise customers
• Hired and built R&D teams (50+ developers) across Shanghai, Shenzhen, Qingdao
• Improved software development flow based on RUP

Skills​

Cloud & Infrastructure: OpenStack, Docker/Kubernetes, Service Mesh/Istio/Envoy, Tess (eBay K8s)

Languages: Java, J2EE, Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript

Frameworks: Spring, SpringBoot, React, Vue, Node.js, eBay Raptor

Data: MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch

DevOps: Tekton, Jenkins, Git, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana

Methodologies: Agile Scrum/Kanban, SRE, TDD

Education​

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou

• Master's Degree, EE/Automation (Sept 1997 - April 2000)
• Bachelor's Degree, EE/Automation (Sept 1993 - July 1997)

Certifications & Training​

• PMP, Scrum, eBay People Management
• OpenStack, Kubernetes, RedHat

Languages​

English, Mandarin

Hobbies & Interests​

• Tennis: USTA national champion, team captain/organizer
• Pickleball: eBay 2023/2024 champion
• Software Projects: Built match analysis system (SpringBoot + Vue)
• Community: Organizer of tech/career/finance seminar series