Edwin Zhao

Cloud & Developer Experience Engineer

Professional Summary

Senior technical leader with extensive experience building large-scale cloud and distributed systems, focusing on advanced CI/CD, developer experience, and cost optimization. Skilled in aligning technology strategy with business needs through modern platform engineering and cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

Kubernetes Docker Terraform AWS (ECS, ECR) GCP Azure Helm Kustomize ArgoCD Flux Terratest Cloud Custodian Spotify Backstage Cloud Formation

DevOps & Automation

Bash TypeScript Go Git GitHub Actions GitLab CI Harness Octopus DynaTrace

Programming & Tools

Go Java TypeScript React / React Native Svelte Tailwind MongoDB PostgreSQL Linux LaunchDarkly Okta Jira Prometheus OpenTelemetry DynamoDB Supabase

Education

Ph.D. in Learning Sciences

Georgia State University

Research focus on educational technology and data science applications in learning environments.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology

2-time Olympic Trials Competitor | Georgia Tech NCAA Division 1 Swimmer

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

HashiCorp

Publications

Exploratory Visual Analysis of Transcripts for Qualitative Research in HCI

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Exploratory Classroom Data Analysis and Reflection with the Interaction Geography Slicer

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Re-Shape: A Method to Teach Data Ethics for Data Science Education

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems