Kai's DEV

Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience across full-stack development, containerized infrastructure, and system integration. Currently serving as Software Engineer Lead at Foxconn India, built and led an 8-person engineering team and building platform infrastructure under strict client security policies. Hands-on experience deploying AI Agents on Kubernetes (K3s), designing polyglot microservices architecture, and building CI/CD pipelines for restricted network environments. Familiar with Python (FastAPI), Prompt Engineering, and MCP/Agent architecture design for AI service integration.

Work Experience

Software Engineer Lead

Sep 2025 – Present

Hon Hai Corp. (Foxconn) • Bengaluru, India

  • Platform Delivery: Built containerized deployment platform with Traefik reverse proxy, Docker Compose orchestration, and GitLab CI/CD pipeline with Nexus private registry for restricted network environment. Reduced deployment time from days to hours.
  • Observability Tooling: Developed custom database monitoring agent in Go — exports metrics to Prometheus, pushes backup status via Prometheus Pushgateway, and visualizes all data through Grafana dashboards for real-time database health monitoring.
  • GitOps MVP: Built end-to-end GitOps pipeline with ArgoCD, K3s, ConfigMap-driven configuration, and frontend deployment — validating the full declarative deployment workflow from Git commit to running service.
  • System Migration & Knowledge Transfer: Onboarded 3 production systems from China. Built AI-powered knowledge base from fragmented docs. Established SOPs and delegated daily operations to reduce single-person dependency.
  • Architecture Design: Evaluated and selected technology stack across backend platform (three approaches compared, Docker Compose adopted for team readiness) and frontend framework (React selected after three-round evaluation). Produced documented trade-off analysis for each decision including future K8s migration roadmap with Kong, Kuma, and MCP-based AI integration layer.

Software Engineer

Mar 2025 – Sep 2025

Evergreen Marine Corp. • Taoyuan, Taiwan

  • Contributed multi-carrier integration insights to API specification.
  • Participated in weekly DCSA standards meetings with the world's 9 largest ocean carriers (75% of global container trade).
  • Developed Developer Portal for enterprise customers (IKEA, Volvo) to self-service integrate shipping APIs.

Software Engineer

Nov 2023 – Mar 2025

Advantech Corp. • Taoyuan, Taiwan

  • Monolith → Microservices: Decomposed VB.NET into .NET Core microservices (ABP.IO DDD). Deployment cycle: weeks → days.
  • Multi-Carrier Integration: Unified DHL, FedEx, Taiwan carriers into single interface (factory/strategy patterns, retry mechanisms). Manual label creation reduced 30%.
  • Chatbot Integration: Integrated logistics carrier APIs with chatbot interface, enabling automated shipping inquiries and order tracking through conversational interaction.
  • Warehouse Automation: PWA for PDA — barcode scanning, auto label printing, e-signatures, dashboards.
  • Data Migration: MS SQL → MongoDB with hierarchical docs and region-based sharding. API response +40%.

Certifications

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals