Career

Experience

5+ years building cloud-native SaaS at Citrix, spanning multi-cloud infrastructure, IaC tooling, compliance, and billing systems.

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2025 - Present

Citrix Business Unit · Cloud Software Group · Nanjing, China

  • Designed and implemented automated Terraform configuration generation for existing customer environments, eliminating manual provisioning overhead.
  • Led design and development of the billing and cost-prediction system for Citrix Platform Flex, the next-generation managed desktop platform.
  • Maintained and extended core services, ensuring high availability and smooth feature evolution across product lines.

Software Engineer II

Jan 2023 - Aug 2025

Citrix Business Unit · Cloud Software Group · Fort Lauderdale, FL & Nanjing, China

  • Developed cloud-native solutions for Citrix DaaS on Azure, AWS WorkSpaces Core, and GCP, expanding multi-cloud support for enterprise customers.
  • Led design and development of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling, including the open-source Terraform Provider for Citrix — supporting both on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Automated CI/CD workflows in TeamCity and Splunk monitoring pipelines, reducing manual operational toil.
  • Drove security hardening initiatives that achieved FedRAMP Moderate certification; currently leading the roadmap toward FedRAMP High.
  • Proposed AI-based design-flaw detection from service logs at a company hackathon, advancing internal adoption of ML-driven observability.

Software Engineer

Jul 2021 - Dec 2022

Citrix Systems, Inc. · Fort Lauderdale, FL

  • Built backend and frontend features for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS Standard for Azure, improving efficiency and security.
  • Refactored shared libraries and base services, delivering measurable performance and reliability gains across multiple product teams.
  • Automated Splunk alerts and dashboards, strengthening real-time monitoring and incident-analysis capabilities.
  • Developed internal tools for monthly customer bill validation and product health monitoring.
  • Led migration of 3 major projects from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET Core 5 (later .NET 9), improving long-term maintainability and performance.

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

Citrix Systems, Inc. · Fort Lauderdale, FL

  • Developed new product features that contributed to significant reductions in operating costs.

Software Developer Intern

Mar 2019 - May 2020

Rose-Hulman Ventures · Terre Haute, IN

  • Modernized a 22-year-old labor union web management platform by migrating to .NET Core MVC, improving security, maintainability, and developer experience.

Teaching Assistant — Computer Science

Sep 2020 - May 2021

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology · Terre Haute, IN

  • Supported instruction for CSSE 280 (Introduction to Web Programming); held office hours and provided feedback on assignments.