Jake Yip
Technical Lead at Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Yip is a Technical Lead with 12 years' experience building and operating large OpenStack-based research clouds, currently leading Core Services at the Australian Research Data Commons. He blends deep production engineering and network/security expertise with hands-on coding in Python, PHP, C++ and Java to keep distributed infrastructure secure, scalable and container-ready. Jake has driven major cloud growth and migrations—integrating Ceph storage, expanding compute nodes, and architecting local OpenStack cells—while owning Nectar networking, OVN/GRE, and Kubernetes workstreams. An active upstream OpenStack contributor, he has stabilized Magnum by fixing Python 3 compatibility, certificate handling, and critical health-check bugs, demonstrating attention to reliability in cloud orchestration. Based in Melbourne, he combines academic-rooted rigor from the National University of Singapore with practical operations muscle honed across national research infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Ngee Ann PolytechnicComputing, Computer Science, Computing, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
python10
apidoc10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
openstack9
service-design9
service-provider9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
testing7
configuration-management7
user-management6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/magnum
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
Container Infrastructure Management Service for OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability of the OpenStack Magnum service. They addressed issues related to Python 3 compatibility, handling of binary certificate data, and API quota management. Furthermore, the user fixed a critical issue where the health status reason could become `None`, preventing successful cluster health checks. They also made minor adjustments to documentation and configuration files.
openstack
waipeng/alltherunning
Jul 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:53 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
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