Gordon Chung
Freelance Stylist at StudioCuts
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGordon Chung is an experienced engineer with 13 years building cloud-native systems, test automation, and telemetry, and a long history of contributing to OpenStack projects like DevStack and Tempest. He has hands-on expertise integrating and configuring complex infrastructure components—particularly elasticsearch—and improving reliability through testing and documentation. Gordon has worked across enterprise and R&D environments at IBM, Huawei, d1g1t, and CPP Investments, with a recent focus on Kubernetes as a managed service. He pairs practical DevOps and QA skills with clear technical writing, having led OpenStack Telemetry documentation efforts and project reviews. Based in Canada and unusually comfortable switching hats, he also freelances as a stylist, a quirky detail that underscores his independent, detail-oriented approach. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns vague requirements and internal acronyms into reliable, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at Queen's University
Github Skills (26)
python10
testing10
technical-writing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
ceilometer10
pest10
elasticsearchquery10
openstack10
temper10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
tempo10
devops10
telemetry10
documentation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-manuals
Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:27 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gordon's contributions primarily focus on updating and improving the documentation for the OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer) project. Their work includes cleaning up documentation, deprecating outdated features and services, and updating the documentation to reflect architectural changes and best practices. They added notes on querying events and how to configure HA for the notification agent, demonstrating a focus on clarity and accuracy in the project documentation.
manualsopendevopenstack
openstack/devstack
Jul 2014 - Mar 2016
System for quickly installing an OpenStack cloud from upstream git for testing and development. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Gordon primarily focused on integrating and configuring components related to OpenStack, particularly within the context of elasticsearch integration. Their commits involve adding elasticsearch event support, installing the elasticsearch client, and making configurations for elasticsearch within the OpenStack deployment environment. They addressed path issues and dependency installations, demonstrating an understanding of system setup and environment variables.
installingtestinginfrastructureopenshiftupstream
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