Jing Zeng

Engineering manager

San Francisco Bay Area

About

As an experienced Engineering Manager and Cloud Team Lead, I possess a proven track record of effectively leading and managing high-performing teams. My strong interpersonal and communication skills enable me to establish solid working relationships with team members, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment. With a passion for driving project success, I excel in providing technical guidance, setting clear goals, and motivating teams to deliver exceptional results. Through meticulous project planning and execution, I consistently achieve on-time, within-budget, and high-quality project delivery. Furthermore, my experience as a Cloud Solution Lead and Senior Software Developer has empowered me to spearhead the development and delivery of innovative cloud solutions. I have successfully expanded product lines, implemented cost-effective serverless architectures, and designed secure multi-tenancy models. Demonstrating expertise in delivering SaaS applications and leveraging data analysis capabilities, I have contributed to enhanced productivity and real-time collaboration through mobile solutions.

Experience

  • Engineering Manager at Yelp
    Feb 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

    - Led technical roadmap planning and provided high-level decision context for team(s) - Worked with Product to envision and define specifications for key projects - Estimated project size and proposed project sequences for faster market delivery - Coordinated initiatives across multiple teams to enhance consumer experience and metrics - Demonstrated expertise in project execution, estimation, and tracking - Managed performance issues and provided coaching for team members - Collaborated with peers and managers to resolve resourcing problems, ensuring alignment and successful project delivery

  • vArmour (1 yr 6 mos)
    • Engineering Manager
      Sep 2021 - Feb 2022 · 6 mos

      - Collaborated with key stakeholders, including product managers and executives, to define technical roadmaps and align them with business goals. - Led the planning and prioritization of projects, ensuring effective resource allocation and optimal utilization of team skills. - Implemented Agile methodologies and best practices to streamline workflows, increase productivity, and meet project timelines. - Facilitated cross-functional collaboration among teams, fostering open communication, knowledge sharing, and effective problem-solving. - Played a crucial role in recruiting and onboarding new team members, contributing to the expansion of the engineering team.

    • Team Lead - Integration / Cloud Architect
      Sep 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

      - Collaborated with key stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient integration strategies. - Architected, deployed, and managed hybrid cloud environments incorporating public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and private data centers, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance. - Conducted comprehensive needs assessments to identify integration challenges and opportunities, providing recommendations for process improvements and architectural enhancements. - Managed end-to-end integration projects, overseeing the development, testing, and deployment of integration solutions, ensuring alignment with quality standards and project timelines. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including developers, infrastructure specialists, and business analysts, to align on business objectives, streamline operations, and achieve project success. - Mentored and coached team members, fostering their professional growth and equipping them with the necessary skills to excel in their roles

  • Computer Modelling Group Ltd. (7 yrs 10 mos)
    • Cloud Team Lead
      Oct 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs

      - Collaborate with C-level executives on advancing company efforts to make more products available on cloud platforms. Partner with public cloud providers to expand CMG Cloud Solution into hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Provide technical support and presale consultation for CMG Cloud Solution and infrastructure questions to promote excelling user experience and system performance. Successfully attracted top companies in the Oil & Gas industry to embark on their cloud journey. - Built a cross-functional team of five and strengthened the software delivery process based on Agile principles, resulting in achieving CMG SaaS Solution (Cloud 2.0) milestones ahead of time with twice as many content deliverables as peers. Performed code review and identified functional gaps in the end-to-end application development life cycle to maintain high-quality standards. - Designed and delivered a SaaS architecture in a serverless model that improved agility and operational efficiency of CMG SaaS Solution (Cloud 2.0). Narrowed the gap between provisioning resources and actual consumption, resulting in cost reduction by 20%, which made us the leading player of cloud solution providers in the Oil & Gas software market. - Designed and enforced a security mechanism across each layer of a distributed system that guaranteed tenant isolation and data privacy boundary in a multi-tenancy shared resource model. Provide industry-standard security while maintaining a consistent and intuitive way to help each organization comprehend and manage their security-related rules by a set of roles without posing burdens to the system development. - Support discovery, user testing, and beta programs to gather feedback prior to each major release. Lead frontend developers on architecting and designing web interfaces to command the cloud environment safely and proficiently, while delivering customer-specific needs for each organization.

    • Senior Software Developer
      Dec 2012 - Oct 2018 · 5 yrs 11 mos

      - Promoted to cloud solution lead for exemplary work on expanding product line into SaaS markets. - Designed and delivered CMG Cloud Solution which offered customers an unprecedented ability to solve large and complex problems with excellent run time. Recognized by CEO upon project completion for stellar execution through highly aggressive time, budget, and cross-functional constraints. - Conceived and developed an interactive data analysis component for CMOST-AI to identify multivariate data correlations, assess the quality of the experimental design, show patterns, and draw conclusions about a hypothesis or proven theory with a more than 50% productivity increase. - Consolidated disparate benchmarking data from multiple workbooks into a mongo DB collection and built new client-facing visualization tool for analyzing runtime speedup and license costs to help the sales team reduce time spent on proposals by 15%. - Led full-stack architecture design, development and testing for CMOST-AI mobile that delivered real-time updates to a wide range of mobile devices and created a safe and intuitive way for engineers to share and discuss their projects, anytime, anywhere.

  • Software Developer at LiveBlock Auctions International
    Mar 2010 - Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    - Designed, implemented, and maintained Bid Anywhere Mobile and Bid Anywhere Desktop applications within all phases of the software development life cycle. - Automated Bid Anywhere Desktop customization that reduced project overhead by 10%. • Collaborated with product manager and other developers on the service provider’s documentation, including user manual and quick start guide. - Supported major auction companies in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand on developing Bid Anywhere Solution which improved satisfaction survey results by 10%.

  • Web Developer at University of Regina
    Aug 2010 - Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    - Updated and modified former projects according to the user’s needs and new trends. - Evaluated existing websites and provided suggestions for improvement. - Collected and analyzed requirements; redesigned new websites to provide an optimal viewing experience - easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones).