Forest Chen
Platform Engineering
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolForest Chen is a platform engineering professional with eight years of experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms for enterprise workloads. He has driven Platform-as-a-Service initiatives at Mastercard—spanning Azure and AWS—focusing on compute, storage, networking, security, governance and self-service developer experience. At Mastercard he led resiliency testing, PCI compliance efforts, and automated onboarding pipelines; he now applies that expertise at Ant Group in Shanghai. Known for efficient problem solving and pragmatic automation, he consistently balances developer velocity with operational risk reduction. Forest combines a UCLA computer engineering background with hands-on kernel and systems experience from early internships, giving him a rare mix of low-level systems insight and cloud architecture practice. He’s equally comfortable negotiating cross-functional requirements and shipping secure, production-ready platform services.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (37)
artwork10
kubernetes-dashboard10
multi-cluster10
artificial-intelligence9
observability9
kubernetes9
devops9
cloud-native9
azure8
governance8
k8s8
go8
logos8
azure-resource-manager8
terraform-provider8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ffforest/kusion
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Deliver intentions to Kubernetes and Clouds
Contributions:175 pushes, 43 branches in 1 year 6 months
ffforest/kusionstack.io
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Source for kusionstack.io site
Contributions:60 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 5 months
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