Violetta Zhao

Software Engineer

Nashville, Tennessee, United States14 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building real-time Big Data pipelines.
  • Proficient in developing secure REST APIs for IoT solutions.
  • Strong background in Information Security and DevOps practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in DevOps and Information Security.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsInformation SecurityBig DataJavaApi DevelopmentAutomationIotEvent-driven SystemsMachine LearningAndroidData AnalyticsAutomated Testing

Other Skills

AWSApache DrillAmazon CloudWatchREST APIsSecurity AssessmentsRemediation StrategiesMongoDBC#.NETMobile ApplicationsC++iPhoneObjective-CMySQLSQLite

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the network and online media industry. Skilled in Golang, Rust, Java, Spring Framework, AWS, DevOps, and Information Security. Strong research and engineering professional with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University.

Experience

14 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
4 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Cloudflare

Systems Engineer

May 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Responsible for the configuration, operations, monitoring, and alerting of the network layer on-ramps that connect customer networks to Cloudflare.
AWSDevOpsInformation Security

Yahoo

Sr Software Dev Engineer | Network Analytics

Oct 2018Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Built real-time Big Data pipelines that process petabytes of data for continuous, real-time analytics.
  • Developed solutions for real-time mapping of the Internet (BMP) with Apache Drill and Superset.
  • Contributed to the development of the network analytics Java library that included key functionalities like longest prefix match.
  • Fixed client routing issues by developing a software that provides up-to-date geolocations of Yahoo's IPv4/IPv6 spaces to MaxMind and Digital Envoy.
Big DataApache DrillJava

Cbs interactive

Software Engineer

May 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Brentwood, TN

  • Worked with leading edge technologies to deliver scalable and reliable high performance API systems to millions of unique users per month:
  • Contributed to development of automation solutions that improve build and deployment systems and support continuous deployment/integration
  • Researched, evaluated, and applied new processes and methods to enrich existing applications
  • Developed JUnit and Mockito test cases to improve code coverage
  • Implemented custom monitoring services of production servers via Amazon CloudWatch
  • Investigated a product redesign that utilizes microservices architecture to satisfy modern business demands
API DevelopmentAutomationAmazon CloudWatch

Hitactics, inc.

Software Engineer

Sep 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Nashville, TN

  • Provided high quality software services for indoor positioning and asset tracking solutions that relied on heterogeneous components, such as IoT.
  • Designed and developed a customizable and scalable event-driven system that processed realtime data streams (e.g. Amazon Kinesis) for purposes such as monitoring, analytics, and notifications.
  • Designed and developed a set of secure Portal REST APIs that simplified retrieving and modifying server data.
IoTEvent-driven systemsREST APIs

Emdeon, now change healthcare

Information Security Intern

May 2015Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Nashville, TN

  • Saved several months of manual work by developing a tool that instantly documented ~4,000 of attack characteristics.
  • Lead the project to prevent the company's websites against online phishing attacks.
  • Performed dynamic security assessments of client-facing applications.
  • Provided remediation strategies for detected security vulnerabilities.
Security AssessmentsRemediation StrategiesInformation Security

Institute for software integrated systems, vanderbilt university

Graduate Research Assistant

May 2013Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Nashville, TN

  • Securboration Project (August 2014 - March 2015)
  • Research on Autonomic Computing to unobtrusively analyze behavior of Java applications to collect data in real time and guide optimization and remedy from security flaws.
  • Applied the machine learning WEKA library to detect security flaws.
  • Employed annotations to intercept specific method calls at run-time to reduce noisy data produced when tracking all method invocations through Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
  • CHildren Eating Well (CHEW) Project (May 2013 - August 2014)
  • Designed and developed an Android app that overcomes the challenges of dealing with often changing unstructured data to ease the shopping experience of WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) participants by allowing them to automatically track their allowances instead of using paper vouchers.
  • Integrated Open mHealth into a cloud-based Amazon EC2 instance running a MongoDB server that stores purchase data to improve integration among mobile health solutions.
  • Developed data analytics solutions for shopping choices data stored in SQLite database to provide healthy tips that are customized for each user.
  • Presented my work as a paper at the SPLASH 2014 MobileDeLi Workshop.
Machine LearningJavaAndroid

Schneider electric

Engineering Intern

Dec 2011Apr 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · La Vergne, TN

  • Assisted in developing automated test applications in C# and .NET.
  • Oversaw the initiative to train the test engineering team on the creation of Coded UI Tests that were used to test the user interface of a software product.
  • Assisted hardware, firmware, and software design engineers with unit testing.
  • Executed written test plans for embedded firmware and software applications.
C#.NETAutomated Testing

Education

Vanderbilt University

Master’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Vanderbilt University

Bachelor of Science (BS) — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2013

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