Colin Kong
FIRE Retiree at Retired @55
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Kong is a former computational chemist turned infrastructure and automation engineer with over three decades of professional experience and a decade focused on software and SRE roles. He architected CI/CD and Kubernetes solutions, automated complex deployments and DB builds, and drove reliability at scale for companies like Playtech BGT Sports and Ticketmaster. His background spans scientific computing, HPC deployment automation, and cloud provisioning (Terraform/CloudFormation), giving him a rare blend of research-grade rigor and production engineering pragmatism. After two career changes and a planned early retirement (FIRE) at 55, he now applies his skills to open source projects, travel, and family life while continuing hands-on IT work and well-being pursuits. An unusual strength is his end-to-end perspective—from Fortran/MPI build systems used in CFD to modern containerized SRE tooling—enabling him to translate legacy scientific workflows into resilient cloud-native operations.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Chemistry, PhD Chemistry at Imperial College London
Github Skills (41)
emf10
event-b10
verification9
adaptation9
containment9
mechanism9
ide8
coda8
scenarios8
dispatcher7
origami7
java7
formal-methods7
eclipse7
translator6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eventB-Soton/iUML_B_ClassDiagrams
Sep 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 review, 15 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years 5 months
cfsnook/blog-files
Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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