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Harvey Zhang

Staff Platform Engineer specializing in healthcare systems and observability

CVS HealthNorthern Illinois UniversityBuffalo Grove, IL24 Years ExperienceStaff LevelWorks Remote

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Hands-on production engineer with deep Oracle tuning and observability-driven troubleshooting experience in a 24x7 healthcare system used by pharmacists across the U.S. While not yet hands-on with GCP databases, they bring strong transferable cloud and platform experience from AWS/Azure, including migration work, memory leak remediation, HA/DR operations, and end-to-end performance debugging across DB, JVM, and network layers.

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Key Strengths

  • Production Oracle performance tuning in 24x7 HA healthcare environment
  • Fast root-cause analysis using Dynatrace and observability tooling
  • Resolved high-concurrency DB session storms caused by microservice loop design
  • Improved engineering practices through developer training and code review standards
  • Contributed to on-prem to AWS lift-and-shift migration
  • Identified and solved memory leaks blocking effective autoscaling
  • Cross-layer debugging across database, JVM, network, and transaction flow
  • Designed mature Jenkins and Chef-based deployment and rollback processes
  • Strong reliability and incident-response mindset for high-severity production issues

Reference Highlights

Moderately Recommended
  • director-level trust and responsibility
  • led observability and performance management activities
  • helped define microservices architecture
  • contributed to modernization of 2 legacy systems
  • enabled cloud-native transformation
  • improved operational efficiency
  • delivered monthly cost savings
  • achieved high availability
  • achieved 99.98% uptime
  • high performance in incident response
  • strong SRE capability
  • created automations for root cause detection
  • used telemetry to drive performance tuning
  • sustained 99.98% SLA for 3 to 4 consecutive years

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Experience

Senior Staff Engineer, Platform Enablement, Specialty PharmacyCVS Health · Jul 2018 – Present
Senior Principal Software Engineer / Java Architect, SPO, R&DBaxter International · Sep 2016 – Jul 2018
Application Architect ConsultantBlue Cross Blue Shield · Apr 2015 – Sep 2016contract
Senior Software Engineer, Lead DeveloperWalgreens · Nov 2000 – Apr 2015

Education

Northern Illinois Universitymaster, Business Administration (2025)

Awards

  • Rapid Recognition Award - Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Pending patent on a system framework and algorithm

Languages

English

Publications

2 publications

JVM performance monitoringAutomated debugging and alerting systemsSoftware architecture frameworksSystem partitioning

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