Chris Yan
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Yan is a versatile software engineer with nine years’ experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently contributing at Microsoft from Vancouver. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Linux, Azure, AWS, Python, Kubernetes, Jenkins and Ansible, with a strong networking background enabling reliable CI/CD and image build pipelines. As a DevOps and build/release engineer on the prominent Open Enclave SDK project, he improved Azure managed image builds, Docker workflows, and security-related dependencies like OpenSSL and Intel SGX clients. His career bridges research support and production operations—from research assistant roles to render wrangling and platform engineering—giving him a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving. Chris pairs solid tooling knowledge with practical testing and automation experience, often focusing on the build and deployment plumbing that keeps complex systems running.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (13)
azure-devops-server10
powershell10
ansible-galaxy10
docker10
azure-devops10
ci-cd-pipeline10
dockers10
build-automation10
ansible10
linux9
windows9
intel-sgx8
openssl8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openenclave/openenclave
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
SDK for developing enclaves
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build/Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build/Release EngineerContributions:2 releases, 357 reviews, 202 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris Yan primarily focused on maintaining and improving the build and deployment infrastructure for the Open Enclave SDK. His contributions involved updating build tools and dependencies, such as OpenSSL, Intel SGX drivers, and Azure DCAP clients. He made significant changes to the CI/CD pipelines, particularly the Azure managed image builds and Docker image builds. The user was also involved in testing, by updating and running tests in the containers.
trusted-execution-environmentdevelopingteesdkconfidential-computing
CyanDevs/mystikos
Aug 2021 - Sep 2023
Tools and runtime for launching unmodified container images in Trusted Execution Environments
Contributions:7 PRs, 347 pushes, 97 branches in 2 years 1 month
containerstrustedruntimetrusted-executionpodman
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