Mao-Lin Wang
Senior Cloud Engineer & Cloud Platform Team Lead
focaaby.com · focaaby@gmail.com
Summary
DevOps engineer and Cloud Platform Team Lead with deep expertise in Linux, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and AWS. Demonstrated ability to solve complex infrastructure problems independently and lead teams to deliver.
Skill
- Linux | System admin and architecture including building, managing, maintaining, monitoring, and tuning, SRE.
- Education | Training, study circle host, workshops, companies, and in university as a teaching assistant since 2013.
- DevOps | Distributed systems, Container, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub/GitLab, Ansible, Terraform, Prometheus, AWS Infra.
Experience
SHOPLINE
- Concurrently serving as Cloud Platform Team Lead since Jul 2025.
- Built EKS control plane and Cilium dashboards to quantify slow Pod scale-out and expose API server scale-up risk; led Cilium/AWS throttling root-cause analysis with a mentee, cutting P99 Pod startup 50–70% and event pre-warm cost 50%.
- Authored an OpenResty WAF redesign after DDoS P0s, enforcing default rate limits on all public paths plus per-URI limits; rolled out to all stacks in Mar 2026, withstanding 3+ DDoS attacks (peak 2.51M RPM) with zero shop impact.
- Led the EKS upgrade process (add-on inventory, upgrade guide, API version checks) and codified it into an AI agent skill, cutting pre-check effort from 5 to 1 person-day while keeping upgrades zero-downtime.
National Institute of Cyber Security
- Advised government agencies on digital resilience and high availability architectures, ensuring robust and continuous operations.
- Developed and implemented comprehensive cloud security guidelines for government agencies.
- Created and standardized CI/CD guidelines for GitHub/GitLab to streamline software development and deployment processes within government agencies.
- Promoted and provided guidelines for Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to enhance software supply chain transparency and security in government agencies.
AppWorks School
- Designed and delivered a Kubernetes course for students, covering topics such as Kubernetes architecture, deployment, and troubleshooting workshops.
Amazon Web Services
- Mandarin Engineer of the Year (2022, EMEA team).
- Certification of AWS EKS Subject Matter Expert.
- Creator of EKS operations helper (Tampermonkey script) to streamline workflow.
- Mentor of DevOps and Security domain services.
- Interviewer of DevOps domain.
- Received over 300+ 5-star ratings from customer feedback.
- Maintainer of Accessibility and Usability of EMEA language and Mandarin team pages in internal Knowledge Management system.
- Troubleshooting and resolving business critical issues for customers in various industries about Kubernetes and CI/CD domain services.
Bridgewell
- Spearheaded the building of Kubernetes from scratch.
- Streamlined the CI/CD pipeline through GitLab templates optimization.
- Optimized and reduced overall product deliverable package size by 80% through Docker image optimization.
- Led the implementation of an internal financial system as project manager and frontend engineer, collaborating with multiple departments to ensure successful delivery of project requirements.
Experience (Organization / Community)
MOLi - Makers' Open Lab for Innovation
- Coordinated over 10 MOLiDay sharing events, featuring various topics such as technology, education topics.
- Managed the organization's Facebook fan page, utilizing content creation and social media marketing strategies to engage with followers and promote events.
KKTIX: https://moli.kktix.cc/
MOLi - Online study circle
Certificate
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
EKS Subject Matter Expert
Publications
2022 iThome 鐵人賽
- 那些文件沒有告訴你的 AWS EKS：解析 Kubernetes 背後的奧秘（iThome 鐵人賽系列書 - https://www.tenlong.com.tw/products/9786263337145）
MOLi - Online study circle
- Webpage - https://lsa.moli.rocks/study-circle/docs/
- HackMD - https://hackmd.io/@ncnu-opensource/linux-study-circle/
NCNU OpenSource
Presentations
深入淺出 EKS Pod Identities
Amazon EKS 與現代化應用管理者實踐
EKS 上的一些安全性常見問題
EKS 上的一些常見問題
Education
Master of Information Management
On the Design and Implementation a Logging Management System that Satisfying Common Criteria Security Auditing Requirements with the Blockchain Technology
Keywords: Common Criteria, Security Auditing, Blockchain, Smart Contract, Hyperledger
Bachelor of Information Management
On the Design and Implementation Reaction Mechanisms of a Intrusion Detection and Prevention System in Linux Kernel-Level
Keywords: Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Monitor, Intrusion Detection and Prevention System, Linux Kernel