Wenfeng Pan

Senior Software Engineer II

Confluent

Hey, I'm Wenfeng!

I’m a software engineer focused on infrastructure, systems, networking, and backend development. I design and build reliable, maintainable platforms that keep large-scale distributed systems running seamlessly. I’m passionate about improving service reliability, streamlining infrastructure operations, and empowering teams to move faster through better tools and automation.

I've also contributed to cloud-native open-source projects like Envoy Gateway and HashiCorp Packer.

Outside of work, you’ll probably find me chasing 🏓 🎾 🏃‍♂️‍➡️, pretending I’m good at tennis, or running just far enough to feel athletic. When I’m not doing that, I’m either belting out karaoke hits or negotiating cuddle time with my cat 🐱.

Interests

Distributed Systems
Service Reliability
Cloud Infrastructure
Networking Platforms

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Feb 2020

University at Buffalo
Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering, June 2018

Qingdao University

Experience

Senior Software Engineer II

Confluent

Mar 2022 – Present Mountain View, CA

Designed and implemented a Kubernetes-based multi-cluster service framework and contributed to the Regional Cluster Operator within Confluent's Layer-7 API gateway, delivering automated discovery and resilient routing across Confluent Cloud regions.
Built a multi-cloud artifact build and distribution system that integrates HCP Packer and Go orchestration services to manage VM artifact lifecycles, lineage, and cross-region replication across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Led the release canary phase for Confluent's networking fleet dataplane upgrades by integrating the Networking Actuation Service, enabling health-gated, phased rollouts across thousands of traffic cells.
Developed the Confluent Cloud network fabric responsible for ingress and egress traffic serving Kafka clusters.

Production Engineer

Facebook

Mar 2020 – Mar 2022 Menlo Park, CA

Enhanced Facebook's Auto Remediation (FBAR) platform by integrating it with the infrastructure-as-code stack, automating host lifecycle workflows for 650+ applications.
Implemented Thrift-based cross-language API bindings so FBAR's Python services could be triggered by Go-based provisioners, unifying remediation automation across the monorepo.
Partnered with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure automated remediation activated for production roles while preserving isolation in development environments.
Collaborated with five engineering teams to uplift service monitoring, observability, and overall reliability practices.

Systems Engineer Intern

Electronic Arts (EA)

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Austin, TX

Built an internal infrastructure specification delivery tool using Python, Django, Flask, React, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ to generate automated machine allocation and deployment workflows.
Applied a publish/subscribe model to deliver infrastructure specs that helped engineers quickly request game capacity and orchestrate provisioning pipelines.