Victoria Cheng

Engineering resilient systems and documenting the 'why'.

Software Developer focused on building observable, scalable platforms. Documenting architectural trade-offs and systems engineering decisions, from data pipelines to cloud infrastructure.

Tech Stack

  • Go
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Rust
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • ArgoCD
  • Docker
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Cilium (eBPF)
  • GitHub Actions
  • Linux
  • Tailscale
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Featured Projects

  • 📊

    Observability Hub

    End-to-end Kubernetes observability system using Terraform and GitOps, with OpenTelemetry, eBPF networking, MCP diagnostics, HA data services, and incident workflows including ADRs and RCAs.

    • Kubernetes (K3s)
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • OpenTelemetry
    • ArgoCD
    • PostgreSQL
  • 🛡️

    Uptime Monitor

    Serverless Go project on AWS that monitors multiple websites hourly with Lambda and EventBridge, stores status history in S3, and deploys infrastructure with Terraform and GitHub Actions.

    • Go
    • AWS Lambda
    • AWS S3
    • AWS EventBridge
    • Terraform
    • GitHub Actions
  • 🎨

    Cover Craft

    TypeScript/React cover image generator with Azure Web Apps and Functions, automated deployment via GitHub Actions CI/CD, queue-based async processing, WCAG validation, telemetry, and analytics.

    • TypeScript
    • React (Next.js)
    • Azure Functions
    • Azure Web Apps
    • GitHub Actions
    • MongoDB Atlas
  • 🗣️

    Echo (MCP server)

    Engineered an MCP server to solve the LLM statelessness gap. Tracks Unit Economics and carbon impact via DuckDB while ensuring sub-10ms query via FTS5, WAL and knowledge refinement.

    • Go
    • SQLite
    • DuckDB
    • MCP
  • 🌿

    CarbonOps

    Experimental Rust CLI for Kubernetes infrastructure observability, collecting workload metrics, node usage, and Prometheus/Kepler energy signals across local and cloud Kubernetes clusters.

    • Rust
    • Kubernetes
    • Prometheus
    • Kepler
  • ☁️

    30 Days of Terraform

    Cloud-agnostic Terraform infrastructure curriculum with Azure depth and AWS validation, covering networking, AKS, RBAC, security patterns, and multi-cloud design.

    • Infrastructure as Code
    • Azure
    • AWS