John Chen
Head Of Platform
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Chen is a hands-on platform leader with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. Currently Head of Platform, he has driven infrastructure at startups and scale-ups—managing EKS/Kubernetes, Terraform-managed AWS fleets, CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, ArgoCD), and security improvements like transient credentials and least-privilege roles. He combines early desktop-support grit and NYU computer science training with practical build-engineering experience (Packer, Ansible, Evergreen CI) to solve operational bottlenecks and reduce deployment friction. As an engineering manager and mentor he prioritizes knowledge transfer, documentation, and developer enablement to scale teams and reliability. He also volunteers teaching programming to give back to the community and often surfaces pragmatic automation (scripts, Helm charts, tooling) from day-to-day support work. Based in New Jersey, he focuses on building robust, sustainable software and infrastructure that makes developer velocity measurable and repeatable.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Staten Island Technical High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at New York University
Chinese, Russian
Stackoverflow
16reputation
593reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (83)
python10
ssh10
nosql10
pipeline10
ansible10
database10
mongodb-database10
mongodb10
devops10
monitoring9
continuous-delivery9
charts9
helm9
automation9
docker9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb-ansible-roles/ansible-role-efs
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
Sets up EFS
Contributions:15 PRs, 29 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 5 months
efs
mongodb-ansible-roles/ansible-role-curator
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Installs curator
Contributions:22 PRs, 55 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 8 months
ansiblecurator
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