Sean Andrew Xu
SPlatform Engineer at VMware · Platform engineering · Bazel, service mesh
- VMware
- Pittsburgh, PA · ET (UTC-5)
- 1+ years experience
- USC
- English
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Overview
I've spent 1 years on platform engineering, now at VMware. Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 13 a week to 2. Most at home with service mesh and TypeScript. Learning to draw.
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- Working sessions on service mesh
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- Recruiters for roles outside my stack
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Skills
BazelTypeScriptservice meshGo
Experience
- Platform EngineerOct 2025 - PresentVMware · 1 yr · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
- Moved 92% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 40 a week to 1.
- Wrote the service mesh service that now handles 51 million requests a day.
Projects
Write-up: platform engineering in practice
2026A long-form guide to platform engineering for people starting out.
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Education
- USCBS, Electrical Engineering2021 - 2025
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