John Shen
Self Employed at Freelance (Self employed)
Clayton, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Shen is an experienced CloudOps and systems engineer with over two decades of hands-on work spanning Linux system administration, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps for companies from Disney Interactive and StumbleUpon to startups like EverOps. He blends deep technical chops—VMware, Xen, CloudStack, Puppet, scripting and large-scale Linux ops—with practical QA and internationalization experience, and more recently has applied his skills as a freelance CloudOps consultant. Fluent in Mandarin-English interpretation and with an academic background in materials science (PhD work), he brings an unusual mix of technical rigor and cross-cultural communication to distributed teams. Known for building and operating resilient infrastructure pods and for rooting out production issues, he’s equally comfortable architecting environments and debugging low-level problems. Based in Clayton, California, John pairs steady operational leadership with a pragmatic, client-focused approach to delivering cloud services. An often-understated strength is his long history bridging research, engineering and operations—making him adept at translating complex technical needs into reliable production systems.
5 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D, Material Science and Engineering, Ph. D, Material Science and Engineering at The Ohio State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Science at Zhejiang University
English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (103)
clustering10
plugin-architecture10
architecture9
continuous-delivery9
scale9
realtime-updates9
docker9
twitter-client9
mysql9
kubernetes9
cd9
database8
sql8
twitter8
database-cluster8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/Youtube_Integration
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
zendesk/react-vscroll
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Virtual Scrolling component for React that handles dynamic rows with unknown heights. eg. dynamic subtrees, Images, Iframes, etc.
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 day
unknownreactjsrowsiframeswindowing
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