Jian Guan

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Kirkland, Washington, United States

About

Engineering leader with 15+ year experience of building large scale distributed systems and platforms especially in API service infrastructure and Cloud infrastructure. Track record of building high performant team to deliver business impactful results.

Experience

  • Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Lead the initiative to build the Uber Security Knowledge Platform to transform the security organization from a reactive security posture to a proactive, data-driven decision-making model.

  • Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
    Nov 2021 - Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Lead for architecting and building the scalable, secure, and multi-cloud networking infrastructure to run Databricks multi-tenant serverless workloads. The areas include network fabric (VPC, subnet, IPAM), network policy for tenant isolation, and customer facing network security features to allow customers to secure their workloads. AWS: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/security/network/serverless-network-security/ Azure: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/security/network/serverless-network-security/ GCP: https://docs.databricks.com/gcp/en/security/network/serverless-network-security/

  • Google (7 yrs 11 mos)
    • Tech Lead Manager
      Oct 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

      As TLM, I own the Google Service Management (https://cloud.google.com/service-infrastructure/docs/service-management/getting-started), and manage the team to build, extend and operate the service.

    • Staff Software Engineer
      Sep 2019 - Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Tech lead of the engineering team working on Google Service Management (https://cloud.google.com/service-management/overview). The service manages lifecycle, configuration, and rollout for all Google services, and third party services built on Google Cloud Endpoints (https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/) and API Gateway (https://cloud.google.com/api-gateway). As tech leader, I set technical directions, initiated and drove multiple projects to evolve the system to become one of the critical components of Google Service Infrastructure (https://cloud.google.com/service-infrastructure/docs/overview).

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Sep 2017 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Amazon (Greater Seattle Area)
    • Software Development Engineer II
      Oct 2011 - Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Software Development Engineer I
      Aug 2010 - Oct 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Technical Intership at Bloomberg
    Jan 2010 - May 2010 · 5 mos