Young Chu

Platform DevOps Engineer

Highly technical engineer passionate about automation, developer experience, and platform engineering.

Work

Staff DevOps Engineer

– Present

Driving organization wide projects and accelerating developer experience

  • Design and adopt ArgoCD to replace existing deployment tool chain

  • Migrate over 4000 services, across 11 environments and 2 cloud providers, to ArgoCD

  • Significantly improve DevEx around deployment and leverage ArgoCD platform for engagement and collaboration across teams

  • Re-design self-hosted GitHub Enterprise server to support OIDC authentication in GitHub Actions runners and deprecate static secrets

  • Evaluting Crossplane + ArgoCD to allow application teams to self-provision and manage cloud resources with GitOps

  • Evaluting Harbor registry to unify multi-cloud image storage

Senior DevOps Engineer

Architect and execute migration of critical on-prem appliances to the cloud

  • Designed and migrated self-hosted GitHub Enterprise server and GitHub Actions runners to cloud platform

  • Migration effort assisted in reducing licensing cost and datacenter footprint by eliminating over 100 VMs

  • Implemented GitHub Actions Runner Controller (ARC) to modernize runner management

  • Implemented Karpenter, in conjunction with ARC, realized a scalable CI solution

  • A cost-effective and scalable CI solution allowed deprecating other CI tooling (Jenkins and Drone) and consolidating on GitHub Actions

Staff Software Deveopment Engineer in Test

Accerlerate a new product's go-to-market

  • Meet new product's go-to-market strategy by doing multiple roles: SDET, DevOps, Platform Engineer

  • Validate product can sustain production load at go-live with Grafana k6.io load testing

  • Implement a multi-region and multi-tenant cloud infrastructure to support new product

  • Implement all the automation for CI and deployment

Senior Software Deveopment Engineer in Test

Test framework builder and unlock new testing capabilities

  • Built an end-to-end testing framework for both API and UI testing

  • Implemented automated Visual testing to comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

  • Leveraged Twilio to create real world inputs into system

Software Deveopment Engineer in Test

Travel Syndication Technology

first foray into FOSS

  • Maintained an UI test framework built in Ruby

  • Implemented Docker Swarm to provide parallel UI testing capabilities

Senior Consultant

Orasi Software
– Present

LoadRunner performance testing engineer

  • Built out a production-representative performance test suite for Disney (WDW/DLR/Paris) booking platform to enable performance benchmarking and optimization

Education

Skills

Programming Languages

  • Python
  • Go

Infrastructure & Tools

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

Languages

English

Native speaker

Interests

Homelab

  • self-hosting
  • Talos Linux Kubernetes