Summary
Charley Chen is a Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating production-critical distributed systems across cloud providers and on-prem data centres. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, orchestration platforms (Mesos/Marathon) and media-processing pipelines with a research background in database systems and memory-optimized architectures. At Tsinghua he helped stand up a 500+ server data centre and delivered measurable efficiency gains (including a 10% power saving through smarter scheduling), and he now applies that operational rigor to cloud-native workloads at Harmonic. Charley is comfortable moving between low-level infrastructure design and automated recovery/monitoring software, and has a track record of turning diagnostics into practical tooling and capacity savings. Proactive, adaptable and team-oriented, he blends academic systems research with pragmatic DevOps execution. Outside core SRE work he explores quantitative tooling (numpy/scipy/pandas/scikit-learn), bringing data-driven insight to operational problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University