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Yuri CHEN

Burwood East,Australia

Summary

Results-oriented DevOps engineer with over 3 years of experience in automating and optimizing pipelines, bringing a keen eye for detail to the entire DevOps lifecycle. Proficient in deploying CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Github Actions and leveraging tools like Terraform and Ansible for IAC. Extensive experience in AWS Infrastructure, working within an agile development environment with a cross-functional team.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Ausync Pty Ltd
01.2024 - Current
  • Engineered an end-to-end comprehensive DevOps support system, integrating features including automated CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), proactive monitoring, centralized logging, and robust security measures
  • Deployed and synchronized a NextJS static website on S3
  • Streamlined CI/CD pipelines by Github Action, Utilized AWS STS for credential authentication, Docker BuildX with ECR for multi-platform builds, and automated deployment to ECS/EKS
  • Automated procedures using IAC Terraform for IAM, S3, VPC, Load Balancers, Route 53, ECS, EKS Clusters
  • Created reusable and modular configurations following the Least Privilege principle for security
  • Implemented unit testing, and security tools for the artifacts, such as SonarQube, OWASP, and Trivy, to implement DevSecOps best practices
  • Created and configured ArgoCD for EKS following GitOps methodology
  • Ensure high availability of applications by autoscaling, and improved system responsiveness during peak traffic period
  • Implemented monitoring and alert management system for the applications via CloudWatch and Grafana and Set up the logging analysis system for the platform via ELK
  • Collaborated in an Agile environment, utilizing JIRA for sprint planning, task management, and issue tracking

DevOps Engineer

Joidea Creative Pty Ltd
03.2021 - 12.2023
  • Deployed the Node.js web application to AWS S3 Bucket and containerized backend application to AWS Fargate cluster by setting up CI/CD automation pipeline using Gitlab CI/CD
  • Improved cross-region latency and performance of the frontend application by implementing the content delivery network (CDN) and customized Domain Name (DNS) via AWS CloudFront and Route53
  • Deployed infrastructure resources on AWS (ECS, ELB…) for the platform with increased visibility and flexibility, by using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools Terraform
  • Managed monthly release pipelines, implementing user whitelisting for Canary releases to ensure controlled Production environment deployments, minimizing risk and enhancing system stability
  • Conducted comprehensive cost analysis between various IaaS providers, leveraging AI and SWOT analysis, resulting in an estimated annual savings of $5000 per month
  • Created detailed and standardized technical design documents and communicated with all stakeholders from customers to programmers

Education

Master - Information Technology and Systems

University of Tasmania
Hobart, TAS
01.2019

Skills

  • AWS Services: ECR
  • AWS Services: IAM
  • AWS Services: ECS
  • AWS Services: ELB
  • AWS Services: Route 53
  • AWS Services: RDS
  • AWS Services: S3
  • AWS Services: VPC
  • AWS Services: ACM
  • AWS Services: KMS
  • AWS Services: CloudFront
  • AWS Services: EKS
  • AWS Services: API Gateway
  • AWS Services: Lambda
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
  • Infrastructure as Code: Ansible
  • Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD: Azure DevOps pipeline
  • CI/CD: Jenkins
  • Code Skills: Python
  • Code Skills: Shell Script
  • Code Skills: Groovy
  • Code Skills: React
  • Code Skills: TypeScript
  • Containerisation & Orchestration: Docker
  • Containerisation & Orchestration: Docker Compose
  • Containerisation & Orchestration: Kubernetes
  • Monitoring & logging: AWS CloudWatch
  • Monitoring & logging: Prometheus
  • Monitoring & logging: Grafana
  • Monitoring & logging: ELK
  • Database: MongoDB
  • Database: DynamoDB
  • Methodologies: Agile
  • Methodologies: Scrum
  • Methodologies: Sprint
  • Methodologies: Jira
  • Methodologies: Kanban

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Ausync Pty Ltd
01.2024 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Joidea Creative Pty Ltd
03.2021 - 12.2023

Master - Information Technology and Systems

University of Tasmania
Yuri CHEN