Emily Chien
Senior Project Manager at Canonical Ltd.
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Chien is a Senior Project Manager with 13 years of experience delivering complex, customer-facing embedded OS and OS enablement projects across PCs and drones, currently leading large global engagements at Canonical. She excels at coordinating geographically dispersed, multilingual teams and has repeatedly managed simultaneous programs while maintaining margins, meeting certification criteria, and navigating scope changes. Her hands-on background includes OS driver-layer projects and practical QA/test automation contributions to the well-known Linux Test Project, where she improved test robustness across kernels and environments. Trilingual in Chinese, English, and Japanese, she combines sharp negotiation and communication skills with a knack for rapid decision-making under uncertainty. Emily is notable for scaling delivery across sites—having transitioned teams between continents—and for ramping new teams to meet aggressive certification schedules.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Library and Information Science, BA, Library and Information Science at National Taiwan UniversityJapanese Language School Program, Japanese Language School Program at MUSASHI-URAWA JAPANESE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
English, Japanese, French
Github Skills (13)
testcase10
c1710
kernel10
sh10
script10
shell10
system-testing10
c1110
scripting10
test-automation10
testing10
bash9
git8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
linux-test-project/ltp
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
Linux Test Project (mailing list: https://lists.linux.it/listinfo/ltp)
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily contributed to the project by identifying and fixing various issues in the test suite. Their work involved correcting typos, standardizing variable assignments, and modifying existing test configurations to ensure compatibility with different environments and kernel versions. They implemented checks for the availability of essential dependencies like `mkfs.ext4` and kernel configurations, adjusting tests to account for the configuration. They have also modified the test suite to correctly handle potential errors related to module signing enforcement.
unixposixtest-automationtest-projectmanjaro
ColinIanKing/autotest-client-tests
Oct 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:504 commits, 1 comment in 5 years 3 months
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