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Alex Chen

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Building resilient infrastructure at scale. 7+ years shipping production systems that don't page you at 3am.

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99.98% Uptime SLA
200+ Deployments/mo
40% Cost Reduction
bash — alex@prod-cluster
$ kubectl get nodes
NAME               STATUS   ROLES           AGE
prod-node-01     Ready    control-plane   42d
prod-node-02     Ready    worker          42d
prod-node-03     Ready    worker          42d
$ terraform apply --auto-approve
Plan: 12 to add, 3 to change, 0 to destroy.
Apply complete! Resources: 12 added.
$ helm upgrade --install app ./charts
Release "app" has been upgraded. Happy Helming!
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01 / about

Infrastructure
as a craft.

I'm a Senior DevOps Engineer based in San Francisco with a passion for building infrastructure that scales gracefully and fails safely. I believe great DevOps is invisible — your developers ship faster, your systems stay up, and nobody loses sleep.

My approach combines deep technical expertise with a product mindset. I don't just keep the lights on — I architect systems that give engineering teams superpowers.

AWS Certified CKA Certified Terraform Associate Open Source Contributor
⚙ system.config
location San Francisco, CA
experience 7+ years
focus Cloud & Platform Eng
education B.S. Computer Science
status ● open to work
coffee black, always
02 / skills

The Stack.

☁

Cloud Platforms

AWS GCP Azure DigitalOcean
Expert · 92%
⎈

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker Helm Istio
Expert · 95%
⚡

CI/CD & Automation

GitHub Actions Jenkins ArgoCD CircleCI
Expert · 90%
🏗

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Ansible Pulumi CloudFormation
Advanced · 88%
📊

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus Grafana Datadog ELK Stack
Advanced · 85%
🔐

Security & Compliance

Vault OPA Falco SOC2
Advanced · 80%
03 / experience

Work History.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Stripe
2022 — Present
  • Architected multi-region Kubernetes platform serving 50M+ daily API requests with 99.99% uptime
  • Reduced deployment time from 45 min to 8 min via GitOps pipeline with ArgoCD and progressive delivery
  • Led cloud cost optimization initiative saving $2.4M annually through right-sizing and spot instance strategy
  • Built internal developer platform (IDP) adopted by 200+ engineers, reducing onboarding time by 60%
Kubernetes AWS Terraform ArgoCD Datadog

DevOps Engineer

Airbnb
2019 — 2022
  • Migrated 300+ microservices from bare-metal to GKE, reducing infrastructure costs by 35%
  • Implemented service mesh with Istio enabling zero-trust networking across all production services
  • Built automated disaster recovery system achieving RTO of 15 minutes and RPO of 5 minutes
GKE Istio Ansible Prometheus

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Cloudflare
2017 — 2019
  • Managed global CDN infrastructure across 200+ PoPs handling 10Tbps+ traffic
  • Automated network provisioning reducing manual configuration time by 80%
  • Developed internal tooling for capacity planning used across 3 engineering teams
Linux Python BGP Nginx
04 / projects

Featured Work.

Featured
01

KubeForge

Open-source Kubernetes operator that automates multi-cluster deployments with intelligent traffic splitting, automated rollbacks, and cost-aware scheduling. 2.4k GitHub stars.

GoKubernetesPrometheusgRPC
02

TerraVault

Terraform module library with 50+ production-ready AWS modules, automated security scanning, and cost estimation built into the CI pipeline.

TerraformAWSPythonOPA
03

ObserveX

Unified observability platform integrating metrics, logs, and traces with ML-powered anomaly detection and automated incident response playbooks.

GrafanaClickHousePythonOpenTelemetry
04

DriftGuard

Real-time infrastructure drift detection tool that compares live cloud state against Terraform state files and triggers automated remediation workflows.

GoTerraformAWS SDKSlack API
05 / contact

Let's build
something great.

Open to senior DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SRE roles. Also available for consulting on cloud architecture and infrastructure audits.

✉ alex@example.com in linkedin.com/in/alexchen github.com/alexchen
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