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I'm Mao Chuan Li, a cloud and data platform engineer with AWS and Azure certifications and 20+ years of experience building scalable data platforms, ML pipelines, and reliable infrastructure. I enjoy solving complex problems, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering robust, secure deployments. In recent roles at Westpac and OneNZ, I've led migration and deployment projects, built MLOps pipelines, CI/CD for dozens of AWS accounts, and contributed to GenAI readiness. I'm passionate about automation, Terraform, Databricks, SageMaker, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive value.…I'm Mao Chuan Li, a cloud and data platform engineer with AWS and Azure certifications and 20+ years of experience building scalable data platforms, ML pipelines, and reliable infrastructure. I enjoy solving complex problems, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering robust, secure deployments. In recent roles at Westpac and OneNZ, I've led migration and deployment projects, built MLOps pipelines, CI/CD for dozens of AWS accounts, and contributed to GenAI readiness. I'm passionate about automation, Terraform, Databricks, SageMaker, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive value.

Mao Chuan Li

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I'm Mao Chuan Li, a cloud and data platform engineer with AWS and Azure certifications and 20+ years of experience building scalable data platforms, ML pipelines, and reliable infrastructure. I enjoy solving complex problems, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering robust, secure deployments. In recent roles at Westpac and OneNZ, I've led migration and deployment projects, built MLOps pipelines, CI/CD for dozens of AWS accounts, and contributed to GenAI readiness. I'm passionate about automation, Terraform, Databricks, SageMaker, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive value.…I'm Mao Chuan Li, a cloud and data platform engineer with AWS and Azure certifications and 20+ years of experience building scalable data platforms, ML pipelines, and reliable infrastructure. I enjoy solving complex problems, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering robust, secure deployments. In recent roles at Westpac and OneNZ, I've led migration and deployment projects, built MLOps pipelines, CI/CD for dozens of AWS accounts, and contributed to GenAI readiness. I'm passionate about automation, Terraform, Databricks, SageMaker, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive value.

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I’m Mao Chuan Li, a cloud and data platform engineer with AWS and Azure certifications and 20+ years of experience building scalable data platforms, ML pipelines, and reliable infrastructure. I enjoy solving complex problems, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering robust, secure deployments.

In recent roles at Westpac and OneNZ, I’ve led migration and deployment projects, built MLOps pipelines, CI/CD for dozens of AWS accounts, and contributed to GenAI readiness. I’m passionate about automation, Terraform, Databricks, SageMaker, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive value.

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Work Experience

Data Platform Lead at OneNZ

April 1, 2024 - Present

Led design, deployment, and migration of AWS Data Platform; maintained Azure legacy system for stability and issue resolution. Configured 8 Databricks workspaces on AWS via Terraform; migrated Databricks notebooks, jobs, and data from Azure to AWS. Implemented Airflow DAGs to orchestrate Databricks jobs. Collaborated with architects, users, vendors, security, network, and cloud team on integration, security/compliance. Supported GenAI team by building infrastructure baseline; provided ongoing assistance.

Senior Platform Engineer at OneNZ

April 1, 2024 - Present

Maintain and support the existing Data Platform on Azure; set up new Data Platform on AWS; contribute to data platform reliability, security, and automation; collaborate with teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions.

Lead Data Engineer (Senior Platform Engineer) at Westpac

October 1, 2021 - February 1, 2024

Contribute to Data Science workbench architecture; set up CI/CD pipelines for 17 AWS accounts; design and implement the MLOps pipeline; implement the Data Ingestion pipeline based on Data Sync; set up alarm and notification systems for workbench tenants; develop SageMaker ML Ops pipelines templates for all tenants; design and implement Fraud CN P API service.

Site Reliability Engineer at Centrality

October 1, 2019 - September 1, 2021

Set up 3 Kubernetes clusters across regions in Azure (Azalea); create a new Kubernetes Storage Class; deploy Prometheus and Grafana servers for all EKS/AKS clusters; develop Helm charts/Terraform scripts; automate deployment of Centrality apps; set up VPN connections to NZTA; migrate/setup Jenkins build server on AWS.

Site Reliability Engineer at Qrious Limited

October 1, 2018 - September 1, 2019

Construct, maintain and monitor on-prem and AWS data centers; deploy AWS resources for big data projects (Skinny Data Warehouse, Spark Sports, QV Data Warehouse); automate infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform and CloudFormation; tune and develop AWS Lambda functions; monitor production systems; revive legacy DADE system; migrate Ubiquity to Revera.

ReleaseTeam Engineer at Kiwiplan NZ

April 1, 2016 - September 1, 2018

In charge of in-house private cloud and supporting developers/testers with Kiwicloud Services. Designed architecture of private cloud (Kiwicloud) on OpenStack. Managed VM templates; developed scripts for auto-installation of all Kiwiplan products. Enabled private cloud services so teams could create virtual machines and install product versions. Designed automation test architecture (TestComplete) and Base Library for QA testers.

Release Team Engineer at Kiwiplan NZ

April 1, 2016 - September 1, 2018

Own in-house private cloud (KiwiCloud); deploy private cloud services based on OpenStack; manage VM templates; develop scripts for automatic installation of KiwiPlan products; deploy KiwiCloud services for scalable IT environments; design automation test execution architecture (TestComplete); develop Base Library of TestComplete for testers; build tools to ease QA testing.

zKVM Performance Development Team Lead at IBM

September 1, 2013 - February 1, 2015

Lead a four-person team to analyze and fix one of two performance issues on the zKVM platform; plan development for non-performance items; develop Linux kernel models to assist investigation; provide guidance and code reviews; report weekly to German development lead; set up team development and test environments on IBM z12 mainframes.

Key Developer, z/OS SVT Workload Development Team at IBM

January 1, 2011 - August 1, 2013

Led requirements management for workload development. Created RTC web-based requirements management system to collect/manage requirements. Trained China SVT teams to use TPS for testing. Defined workloads for z/OS SVT teams and identified critical defects. Built SVT tools: SSL Thrasher, USS TimeOut Verifier, HIS Automation Tool, HIS API Driver.

z/OS SVT Workload Development Team Lead at IBM

January 1, 2011 - August 1, 2013

Lead requirements management, create a web-based Requirements Management System for RT C to manage requirements; advocate and train China SVT teams to use TPNS for testing; compile workloads for z/OS SVT teams and identify critical defects; developed SSL Thrasher and USS Timeout Verifier tools and automation for SVT.

Team Lead, Lotus Domino Development at IBM

February 1, 2010 - December 1, 2010

Team lead for Lotus Domino Development; developed and advocated REST API for Lotus Domino platform. Analyzed Domino NSF docs, CRUD API, XML/JSON formats; promoted REST API to Chinese customers.

Team Lead for Lotus Domino Development Team at IBM

February 1, 2010 - December 1, 2010

Develop and advocate a new REST API for Lotus Domino platform; analyze Domino NSF data model; develop CRUD API for Domino data in XML/JSON; promote REST API to Chinese customers.

Automation Developer, Lotus Expeditor FVTS/SVT Team at IBM

March 1, 2004 - January 1, 2010

Automation developer for Lotus Expeditor FVTS/SVT Team; designed and implemented a brand-new STA FTA Task Execution Engine (STAKE) to replace STA X (XML). Implemented VRM (Virtual Resource Management) system on STAKE to manage resources for manual/automation tests. Built J2EE web-based reporting; designed database schema; set up VMware ESX(i), Lotus Automator, MySQL, WebSphere. Developed Eclipse plugins for easy development of eEJB for IBM Rational products.

Automation Developer for Lotus Expeditor FVT/SVT Team at IBM

March 1, 2004 - February 1, 2010

Develop and maintain automation scripts and environments; create STA FSTAKE engine to replace XMA; design VRM system to manage compute resources for tests; develop a Java-based test automation framework and related tools.

Key Developer at Beijing Huawei Integrated Co., Ltd

June 1, 2003 - February 1, 2004

Key developer for China Telecom Payment Web System; web pages and web services interfaces.

Junior Developer for China Xiamen Fund Management System at Beijing Sunway Software Co., Ltd

June 1, 2003 - February 1, 2004

Design and develop front-end pages for China Xiamen Fund Management System; deploy management system.

Junior Developer at Beijing Sunway Software Co., Ltd

July 1, 2002 - May 1, 2003

Junior developer for China Xiamen Fund Management System; web pages design and implementation.

Key Developer for China Telecom Payment Web System at Beijing Holly Bridge Integrated Co., Ltd

July 1, 2002 - May 1, 2003

Design and develop front-end web pages for China Telecom Payment System; introduce Struts web framework to accelerate development; coordinate with ext devs to define web services interfaces and implement client.