Roby WeiROBYWEI

PROFILEWhat I do

• Cross-functional breadth

  Working knowledge of frontend, backend and infrastructure; set up cross-functional teams of 12–18 (frontend, backend, DevOps, QA, art, DBA) and worked with strong engineers across Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, Serbia, Europe and the US; made technology choices through every era — data centers, virtualization, private and public cloud, containers and AI agents.

• Early adopter

  Delivered container services on Kubernetes and Docker Swarm from 2015 and helped build an OpenStack private cloud and mid-to-large projects; recently introduced zero-trust access, security compliance and AI-agent operations (AI Ops).

• Operations at scale

  12,000+ VMs, 6,000+ physical servers and 6 global data centers; an online game with 260,000+ concurrent users; 300+ microservices in production.

• Platform engineering and DevSecOps

  Config-driven CD platform, quality gates, secrets management, traceable monitoring, deployments and analytics, security compliance planning and execution, plus SOPs and cross-border collaboration standards.

CAREERWork experienceTotal: 22 years

1. Mar 2025 – Oct 20261 yr 8 mos

   Axiom

   Sr. DevOps EngineerIT system integration (100–500 employees), Taipei

   A software company in gaming, sports and platforms — mainly platform, payment and gaming services with third-party integrations — supporting teams in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and China.

   + Highlights

   • Manage dev, staging, release and production environments on Kubernetes with Kustomize: 300+ microservices in production across gaming, web and payment domains, plus middleware, one-off jobs and scheduled services; the vast majority run with high availability and HorizontalPodAutoscaler-based autoscaling.
   • Built a config-driven CI/CD platform (platform engineering) on GitHub Actions: build, code standardization, security scanning, deployment and automated updates, with monitoring coverage across service types.
   • Centralized secrets with a secret-manager approach (Vault), with in-house audit and drift-detection tooling that supports ISO 27001 compliance audits.
   • Drove DevSecOps quality gates that automatically verify code security scans and compliance checks (vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, leaked secrets) and apply automated fixes.
   • Built zero-trust access management, centralizing authentication and auditing of infrastructure access.
   • Introduced AI Ops: AI-agent (Claude) operating rules and guardrails (secret redaction, operational safeguards), integrated with real-time alerts and notifications to quickly analyze critical-service alerts and review automated fixes.

   • Kubernetes
   • CI/CD
   • IaC
   • Cloud
   • Monitoring
   • DevOps/SRE
   • CDN
   • Zero-trust architecture
   • AI agent integration

2. Dec 2023 – Feb 20251 yr 3 mos

   JingMi

   Sr. SRE / DevOps EngineerInternet (30–100 employees), Taipei

   A software company focused on app development projects.

   + Highlights

   • Built and operated highly available DevOps and cloud architectures.
   • Planned and ran Kubernetes clusters, CDN and core infrastructure as the owner of day-to-day DevOps/SRE operations.
   • Automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code to standardize deployments.
   • Established monitoring and alerting, and delivered containerized services.

   • Kubernetes
   • CI/CD
   • IaC
   • Cloud
   • Monitoring
   • DevOps/SRE

3. Dec 2020 – Nov 20233 yrs

   Cyberpunk

   DevOps DirectorSoftware & Internet (1–30 employees), Taipei

   A software company focused on live streaming, running a 24/7 B2C service for users in Europe, the US and South America, with teams in Serbia, China, Europe, the US and Taiwan.

   + Highlights

   • Built and managed highly available DevOps and cloud architectures.
   • Owned DevOps/SRE, CI/CD, Kubernetes, CDN, monitoring, infrastructure and streaming.
   • Automated CI/CD pipelines and built RTMP, HLS and WebRTC streaming services.
   • Partnered with frontend, backend, product and QA teams.

   • Kubernetes
   • CI/CD
   • Monitoring
   • Streaming
   • Cloud
   • IaC

4. Jun 2020 – Nov 20206 mos

   YT Cloud

   Sr. DevOps EngineerInternet (game development and online services)

   A software company in gaming, exchanges and platforms, supporting teams in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and the Philippines.

   + Highlights

   • Introduced Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and designed its architecture.
   • Designed CI/CD and IaC workflows, including an automated test structure with Postman.
   • Designed a cross-region, highly available Azure CDN architecture.

   • Kubernetes (AKS)
   • CI/CD
   • Monitoring
   • Cloud
   • IaC
   • CDN

5. Jun 2019 – Apr 202011 mos

   Innotech

   DevOps ManagerSoftware services (30–100 employees), Taipei

   A B2B software company building gaming, sports and platform products with third-party integrations, running 24/7 for teams in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and the Philippines.

   + Highlights

   • Built and managed a 12-person DevOps team covering 24/7 on-call shifts.
   • Owned DevOps/SRE, CI/CD, Kubernetes, CDN, monitoring and infrastructure.
   • Ran training, wrote SOPs and defined architectures; partnered with frontend, backend, product and QA teams.

6. Oct 2018 – Apr 20197 mos

   TechIdea

   Engineering ManagerSoftware services (1–30 employees), Taipei

   A software and game development startup delivering outsourced projects for Taiwanese clients in online gaming platforms; the team was formed from engineers I had worked with before.

   + Highlights

   • Built and managed an 18-person development team spanning frontend, backend, DevOps, QA, art and DBA.
   • Delivered three projects to clients every month.
   • Handled administrative duties in a small-company setting.

7. Mar 2018 – Oct 20188 mos

   WinHuaInfo

   Engineering ManagerSoftware services (30–100 employees), Taipei

   A software outsourcing company serving a Philippine client in video streaming and gaming — the same owner who hired me at OrientalGame in 2016 brought me back out of trust to build a new team in Taiwan, working alongside another Taiwan team.

   + Highlights

   • Built and managed a new development team of up to 16 people spanning frontend, backend, DevOps, QA, art and DBA.
   • Helped the Taiwan general manager establish and run the company's management system.
   • Provided solutions and delivered projects to the client, including on-site work in the Philippines.

8. Dec 2016 – Feb 20181 yr 3 mos

   Cepave

   Sr. SRE EngineerSoftware services (30–100 employees), Taipei

   An open-source and blockchain startup; the Taiwan office was one of the development teams supporting a Chinese CDN enterprise.

   + Highlights

   • Led CDN monitoring built on the open-source Open-Falcon project.
   • Served as Scrum Master or Product Owner.
   • Ran Docker-based SRE operations for data centers in China, including CI/CD and on-site support.
   • Supported blockchain projects, including the whitepaper and ICO planning.

9. Jul 2016 – Sep 20163 mos

   OrientalGame

   Taiwan CIOInternet (100–500 employees), Taipei

   Hired directly by the CEO as the first Taiwan employee to build a local development team (planned 45 staff, 36 developers) for a live video streaming project with the China and Philippine teams; trained at the Philippine headquarters.

   + Highlights

   • Designed the organization of the Taiwan development team.
   • Built Docker Swarm clusters in the AWS Tokyo and Hong Kong regions.
   • Integrated video services: RTMP, HLS, JSMpeg, FLV, Canvas and CDN.
   • Started recruiting and planned new Game API and Platform API services.

10. Jun 2015 – Jun 20161 yr 1 mo

    CloudCube

    Team LeaderInternet (1–30 employees), Taipei

    + Highlights

    • Led the common-services team supporting all of the company's cloud services, with members in Taiwan and China.
    • Delivered Docker container services:
      • Built on Kubernetes and Docker Swarm
      • Integrated Docker with CI/CD pipelines
      • Designed standard container clusters and services
    • Integrated private and public cloud services with OpenStack:
      • Delivered stable service components on OpenStack
      • Containerized the OpenStack environment with Kolla
      • Automated deployments with Ansible and SaltStack
    • Provided open-source building blocks for the cloud platform:
      • Monitoring: Zabbix
      • Message queue: RabbitMQ
      • Relational database: MariaDB and Percona (MySQL)
      • Load balancing: HAProxy
      • Cache: Redis and Memcached
    • Researched business and technical solutions, including Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, ELK and MongoDB.

11. Sep 2013 – May 20151 yr 9 mos

    Trend Micro

    Solutions ArchitectSoftware services (500+ employees), Taipei

    + Highlights

    • Reviewed the architecture of software projects and services.
    • Advised and worked with departments and teams across the company.
    • Designed standards and SOPs.
    • Applied cloud-native principles to improve architectures.
    • Supported services across 6 global data centers and AWS, spanning 12,000+ VMs and 6,000+ physical servers.
    • Collaborated with colleagues in the US, Philippines, UK, Taiwan and Japan.
    • Designed HA architectures to meet service SLAs.
    • Supported global DNS, proxy, Puppet, Git, SVN, Active Directory, Splunk, Zenoss and Monitis.

12. May 2010 – Sep 20133 yrs 5 mos

    Garena Taiwan

    Head of SystemsInternet (100–500 employees), Taipei

    + Highlights

    • Managed systems, networks, and hardware and software servers.
    • Kept online games running at scale — a single title peaked at 260,000+ concurrent users — under SLA, HA and load-balancing requirements.
    • Analyzed network systems and planned network architecture for the IDC.
    • Streamlined work and processes through IT systems (MIS).
    • Planned virtualization and server service architectures.
    • Recruited and developed engineers to build a strong team.
    • Drove globalized architecture and cloud adoption.
    • Led cross-department communication and organizational planning.

13. Apr 2009 – Apr 20101 yr 1 mo

    MyMaji

    Sr. System EngineerOnline games

    A startup I joined at a former manager's invitation. It launched a successful web game, then pivoted to a social platform and Facebook games, and was acquired by SNSplus in 2010.

    + Highlights

    • Ran infrastructure for the web game 50Hero and Facebook Flash games.
    • Operated Citrix virtualization, blade servers, networking and firewalls.
    • Provided web, DNS, CDN, proxy, monitoring and database services for the RD and PM teams.
    • Built, migrated and networked multiple data centers in Taiwan.

14. Jul 2008 – Mar 20099 mos

    UserJoy

    System EngineerOnline games

    Formed from the merger of several game studios; the system department served all internal project teams.

    + Highlights

    • Supported CrossGate 2 and Mahjong Online, including performance tuning that raised concurrent-user limits.
    • Managed server hardware, networking, databases, firewalls and security.
    • Handled maintenance, monitoring, backup and troubleshooting, with 24/7 on-call duty.

15. Sep 2005 – Jun 20082 yrs 10 mos

    XCome

    MIS & System AnalystMobile applications, Taipei / Beijing

    A mobile application company (MSN, dictionary apps) partnering with Chunghwa Telecom (emome) and Microsoft (MSN). It grew from 8 employees when I joined to more than 60.

    + Highlights

    • Maintained hardware, DNS, mail, web, firewall, VPN, VoIP and file services.
    • Supported development of PHP, Java, J2ME, J2SE and MySQL services.
    • Built and supported the bug tracker, CRM and CMS.
    • Set up the IT infrastructure for the new Beijing office in 2007 and supported MIS for both offices.
    • Worked with colleagues from Germany, France, India, Denmark, Canada and Brazil.

16. Sep 2003 – Oct 20041 yr 2 mos

    Acer Funtown

    Jr. System EngineerOnline games

    An online game operator (mahjong and MMORPGs) running on Acer hardware; acquired by GigaMedia in 2006 and now known as Funtown.

    + Highlights

    • Supported Funtown Mahjong and StruGarden Online.
    • Maintained servers, networking, monitoring and patches, with 24/7 on-call duty.

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