Chen Lin
Software Engineer at VMware
Beijing, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChen Lin is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in cloud-native networking and CI/CD for Kubernetes on VMware platforms. Based in Beijing, he has driven production features like IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack, no-NAT routable pods, and NSX-VPC support for vSphere Kubernetes Service while maintaining downstream and upstream releases (VKS, TKG, PKS, CPI). He has accelerated testbed provisioning by automating Nimbus infrastructure lifecycles to reduce resource wait times from hours to one minute, and contributes as a maintainer to the cloud-provider-vsphere project in the Kubernetes org. His background blends systems-level networking, automation, and practical tooling—skills honed through multiple VMware internships including building NSX-T debugging tools in Go and a VR remote-desktop prototype in Unity. Chen holds a master's in computer science from USC and began his technical path in communications engineering, giving him a strong foundation in both networking theory and cloud engineering practice.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Communications Engineering, 87.0/100.0, Bachelor's degree, Communications Engineering, 87.0/100.0 at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering
Chinese, English
Github Skills (36)
vsphere10
testing10
packaging10
loose-coupling10
laravel10
building-blocks10
historical10
carvel10
coupling10
vcenter10
meta9
lifecycle9
vmware9
vms9
php9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chenlin07/cloud-provider-vsphere
Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
Kubernetes Cloud Provider for vSphere https://cloud-provider-vsphere.sigs.k8s.io
Contributions:5 PRs, 48 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 2 months
providerk8skubernetescloud-providervsphere
chenlin07/test-infra
Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
test-infrastructureseccomptestinginfrastructurekubernetes
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