Balqis Ismail

Senior Engineering Manager at Lakemont Health · Cloud infrastructure · Linux, Terraform

Lakemont Health

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · MYT (UTC+8)

12+ years experience

Seoul National University

English, Malay

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Overview

I've spent 12 years on cloud infrastructure - first at Commonwealth Bank, now at Lakemont Health. Shipped 6 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback. Big believer in written communication.

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AWSGoincident responseLinuxKubernetesPrometheusTerraform

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Looking for a mobile engineer who has worked on Prometheus at scale

Role: Mobile engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Hybrid
Compensation: $157k-$193k
Team: Infrastructure, 10 people
Start: As soon as possible
Must have: Production experience with Go Production experience with Kubernetes Ownership of something end to end
Process: Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp S$134k-S$218k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysiaincident responseterraformlinux

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Experience

Senior Engineering Manager
Jun 2023 - Present
Lakemont Health · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Grew the infrastructure team from 3 to 23 engineers.
- Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
Engineering Manager
Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
Google · 3 yr · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Moved 63% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Shipped 10 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Jul 2018 - May 2020
Lazada · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
May 2017 - Jul 2018
Samsung Electronics · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 29% in two quarters.
- Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 427ms to 169ms.
Site Reliability Engineer
Oct 2014 - May 2017
Commonwealth Bank · 2 yr 7 mo · Contract · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 3.
- Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 765ms to 127ms.

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Education

Seoul National University
BS, Information Technology
2010 - 2014

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