Leandro Siow

Leandro Siow grew up in Singapore, a city state, before moving to Los Angeles for his Bachelors in Cinema and Television. There he got the opportunity to intern at The Walt Disney Company, a company he loved greatly. After graduating he continued on with his Masters in Mass Communication before joining AWS as a Cloud Support Engineer (Deployment and Kubernetes). It was there he grew to love containers and automating deployments through infrastructure-as-code. Here at Google, Leandro has just transitioned from a Technical Support role to a Customer Engineer role and looking forward to helping customers modernize their applications.

Hobbies: Traveling 🗺
Next Personal Goal: Take up flying ✈️
Interesting Facts: Huge Fan • I can say "Thank you" in over 10 languages

Last Updated: May 8, 2023

Worked for

Resume

9 Years of Experience

Education

M.A. in Mass Communication with Distinction

  • Dean’s Recognition Award for Continuing Graduate Student (2017-2018)

B.A. in Cinema and Television Arts with Honors

  • Achieved Dean‘s list in every semester and graduated with a GPA of 3.76/4.0
  • Web Design, Interactive Multimedia Production, Scriptwritting, Video Production
May 2003 ‐ Jun 2006
Temasek Polytechnic,
Singapore

Diploma in Info-Communications with Merit

  • Cisco Networking, Java, Data Structures and Algorithm; Web and Database Programming
  • Network design and implementation for an enterprise environment; Developed a client/server TCP/IP chat program in Java

Experience

May 2022 ‐ Present
Google Cloud Platform

Customer Engineer, Application Modernization

  • Help customers transform and build their business for the Cloud.
  • Work with customers to modernize their apps into containers for Kubernetes (GKE)
  • Manage the technical relationship with Google customers including managing product, solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional technical resources
  • Recommend migration strategies, enterprise architectures, migration tools, and cloud infrastructure required to implement a complete solution using best practices on Google Cloud. Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as needed.
  • Jan 2021 ‐ May 2022
    Google Cloud Platform

    Technical Support Engineer

    • Troubleshoot enterprise and business customers‘ highly critical and complex issues, through reproduction to be able to offer work-arounds where possible
    • Deployment experience in Cloud automation using AWS CloudFormation to implement high-availability network architectures and Elastic Beanstalk to deploy scalable application
    • Container orchestration experience with Docker, ECS and EKS to implement microservices and load balanced containerized applications
    • Hands-on experience working on AWS Services
      • CI/CD: CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy
      • Container Services (On-Prem): Anthos on VMware, Anthos on BareMetal
      • Service Mesh: Anthos Service Mesh
      • Config Management: Anthos Config Management
      • Others: Container Optimized Images, Docker, Containerd, Cloud Run and Cloud Run on Anthos
    Dec 2019 ‐ Dec 2020
    Amazon Web Services

    Premium Cloud Support Engineer (Deployment)

    • Worked with business and enterprise customers in real-time to troubleshoot highly critical and complex issues, through deep dive and reproduction, while consistently achieving 5-stars ratings and feedback-compliments from customers
    • Develop an understanding of Google‘s product technology and underlying architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, and determining the root cause for customer reported issues
    • Hands-on experience working on GCP services
      • Container Services: GKE
      • Container Services (On-Prem): Anthos on VMware, Anthos on BareMetal
      • Service Mesh: Anthos Service Mesh
      • Config Management: Anthos Config Management
      • Others: Container Optimized Images, Docker, Containerd, Cloud Run and Cloud Run on Anthos
    Sep 2018 ‐ Dec 2019
    Amazon Web Services

    Premium Cloud Support Associate (Deployment)

    Same job scope as above

    Aug 2017 ‐ May 2018
    META+LAB at California State University, Northridge

    DevOps Engineer

    • Ability to work under pressure and complete assigned tasks, effective troubleshooter adept at solving problems rapidly
    • Developed Python scripts to monitor network infrastructure
    • Deployed and maintain VMs and LAMP stacks for various web applications.
    • Managed implementation and deployment of services on AWS as part of an effort to improve reliability and scalability.
    • Worked with Ansible and Terraform scripts to automate deployments
    • Collaborated to deploy LDAP server to authenticate internal and external clients

    Digital Media and Communication Specialist

    • Designed and produced digital media for use in broadcast emails and websites (Drupal), as well as for print, to support alumni programs
    • Projects include monthly e-newsletters, event-specific marketing flyers, alumni communications, web design, digital advertisements, program booklets and postcards
    Jan 2016 ‐ Apr 2016
    MOI Global

    Digital Media and Communication Specialist

    • Compiled event registrations with analytics using complex functions such as in-string search, vlookups, index and match pivot tables in Excel
    • Researched the market and sourced for event requirements
    • Organized and facilitated all events details such as décor, catering, entertainment, transportation, location, invite list, special guests, equipment and promotional materials
    • Point-of-contact for event logistics
    • Supported the Account Manager in the planning and execution of events
    Aug 2014 ‐ Feb 2015
    UNINCORPORATED

    Technology and Media Intern

    • Implemented Google Apps and VPS servers to streamline workflow
    • Planned, deployed and optimized the setup of computer networks, routers, switches to support high data throughputs
    • Built and developed Wordpress sites
    • PIT technical support for internal and external clients

    Technology and Media Intern

    • Revamped the University‘s marketing materials to strengthen corporate identity.
    • Designed marketing materials such as HTML emails, flyers, posters and program booklets for Alumni events and award ceremonies.
    Jan 2013 ‐ Jan 2014
    The Walt Disney Company

    Technology and Media Intern

    • Initiated the development of a microservice to pull social media data via REST APIs using PHP and Javascript, improving the efficiency by saving almost eight man-hours per week.
    • Contributed to a 20x exponential growth of D23 fan club membership from 10K to 200K in a year after analyzing social media data to propose change from a paid model to freemium model
    • Saved 300 man-hours per event for the events team by revamping the ticketing system to effectively manage community events
    • Created microsites on Jive platform for segments such as Global Security, Walt Disney Studios and Paralegal using HTML, CSS and Javascript
    • Created HTML email newsletter templates for internal departments such as Disney Studios and Global Security
    Aug 2012 ‐ Dec 2012
    Archdiocese of Los Angeles (San Fernando Pastoral Regional Office)

    Media Intern

    • Director for Live Web Broadcast for Regional Congress over HTTP Streaming using WireCast ‐ 3 camera setup
    • Planned and coordinated the technical setup of routers and switches, Tri-Casters Broadcast Switches, cabling, 3 cameras, projectors, Mac Computers and other AV equipment
    • Worked with and transcoded various file formats and codecs (H.264, FLV) to ensure cross-platform compatibility for live stream, including mobile devices
    Jun 2006 ‐ Jun 2008
    Ministry of Defense, Singapore

    Corporate Relations Specialist

    • Coordinated and organized the Temasek Society Commemorative Dinner, a prestigious and exclusive event for high ranking military officers with the President of Singapore as the Guest-of-Honor.
    • Produced, directed and filmed videos of military training exercises to be viewed by Army Chiefs‘.
    • Coordinated high‐level events and conferences for high-ranking foreign military delegates, government personnel and local Army Chiefs.
    • Technical support and recommended purchase for new IT and AV equipments.
    • Media monitoring, information mining and collecting for daily reports and press releases.
    Jun 2006 ‐ Jun 2010
    Sengkang Community Center

    Customer Service (Part-Time)

    • Provided customer service to a diverse clientele, promoting community events and courses
    • Marketing and promoting of products, services and memberships over the counter and at roadshows
    • Designed and managed advertisements for digital displays
    • Event Management ‐ Guest relations and overall setup for events such as National Day and New Year‘s Day countdown celebration for the community

    Google Cloud Platform

    Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

    80%

    Anthos on BareMetal

    85%

    Amazon Web Services

    Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

    80%

    Elastic Container Service (ECS)/Fargate

    85%

    Elastic Beanstalk

    75%

    CloudFormation

    70%

    Coding Skills

    JavaScript

    85%

    PHP

    70%

    Python

    60%

    Contact

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