Jerry Chen
Senior DevOps at Connective
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJerry Chen is a Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and secure CI/CD platforms from Melbourne. He specializes in IaC (Pulumi, Terraform, Troposphere/CloudFormation), Kubernetes architecture and service meshes, and has driven major cost and reliability wins—such as an 85% AWS cost reduction from K3s refactoring and non-blocking Jenkins builds on EKS. Jerry combines hands-on engineering with compliance and security tooling (OWASP scans, Securiti.AI) and has contributed upstream to troposphere, adding broad AWS resource support and extensive unit tests. Equally comfortable writing operators and Lambda ETL as he is authoring platform-level GitHub Actions, he’s known for turning monoliths into testable micro-stacks and improving SRE productivity with bespoke internal tools.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Information Technology, Master’s Degree, Information Technology at University of Tasmania
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
python10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
rds7
amazon-elasticsearch7
json7
amazon-eks7
iks7
infrastructure7
cloud-infrastructure7
aws-elasticsearch7
elasticsearchquery7
api7
k8s7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cloudtools/troposphere
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
troposphere - Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jerry contributed significantly to the `troposphere` library, primarily by adding support for new AWS resources and features within the AWS CloudFormation framework. Their work involved defining new classes, properties, and validators for resources like EFS, MSK, CloudFront, WAFv2, API Gateway v2, ECR, EKS, Logs, OpenSearchService, Cassandra, Elastic Load Balancing v2, ElastiCache, and RDS. The user also wrote unit tests to validate the correct functioning of these new resources and features.
aws-cloudformationpythontropospherecloudformationpython3
jerry153fish/git-delta-action
Oct 2024 - Jun 2026
A GitHub Action to show git diff with delta for a specific files against environments/branches/commits
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 33 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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