Chuan-yen Chiang
Staff Cloud Platform Engineer
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChuan-yen Chiang is a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, developer experience, and DevOps solutions across AWS and Azure. He designs and implements unified control planes and Kubernetes operators, combining Terraform, Crossplane and Backstage to reduce cognitive load and accelerate cloud adoption. A pragmatic engineer, he breaks complex stories into incremental, deliverable tasks and drives cross-functional integrations with Platform Core, FinOps, SRE and data teams. He contributes to notable open-source work in Crossplane—improving the crank CLI, function pipelines, and private registry credential handling—which reflects his backend and DevOps focus. His background spans backend, data and platform engineering with Go, Python and TypeScript, and includes measurable results such as major cost and performance gains from platform re-architecture. With a PhD-level academic foundation and hands-on production impact, he blends rigorous problem solving with a strong developer-first mindset.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Asia University (TW)Exchange student Computer Science and Engineering, Exchange student Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish
Github Skills (11)
docker10
go10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods9
cloud-native9
kubernetes9
container8
infrastructure-as-code8
yaml8
cloud-manager8
github7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
crossplane/crossplane
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
The Cloud Native Control Plane
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 12 PRs, 34 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chuan-yen primarily contributed to the project by implementing features related to the "crank" command-line interface and the function pipeline within the Crossplane ecosystem. They addressed issues related to credential handling for functions and incorporated the ability to pull images from private registries using Docker configurations. They also made improvements to the build process by unsetting environment variables to prevent unexpected behaviors during testing.
containerscloud-computingserverlesscloudmulticloud
cychiang/crossplane
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Cloud Native Control Planes
Contributions:62 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 6 months
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