Summary
Cola Chen is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in the Greater Tokyo Area with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native and on-premises infrastructure. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD (Jenkins, Tekton, GitLab), observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), and automation with Terraform and Ansible, and has led migrations that cut cloud costs by around 30% and reduced pipeline failures. Cola combines hands-on engineering with mentorship and process improvements, driving weekly release cadences for complex microservice platforms and documenting platform transitions for team adoption. He also has a track record of vendor negotiation and data center design, having managed 100+ VMs and 200+ microservices, and takes a pragmatic, open-source-minded approach summarized by his GitHub motto: "do the right thing."
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at 苏州大学文正学院
Yamano Japanese language school
Chinese, English, Japanese