Jun Chen
Principal Engineer at Red Hat
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJun Chen is a Principal Engineer based in Ottawa with two decades of hands-on experience designing and modernizing telecom systems from Nortel-era products to cloud-native platforms. He specializes in decomposing monolithic VoIP/SIP applications into resilient microservices and has deep operational knowledge of OpenStack, Kubernetes, AWS, and both SQL and NoSQL databases. Jun’s career spans engineering and architecture roles at Nortel, Genband, Ribbon Communications, and Red Hat, where he focuses on performance, high-availability, networking, and OAM. Known for bridging protocol-level telecom expertise with modern cloud tooling, he ensures carrier-grade reliability while accelerating delivery. His academic background in acoustics and a master’s in electrical engineering give him a systems-oriented perspective that informs pragmatic design trade-offs. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex telecom requirements into scalable, observable cloud-native solutions.
5 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Acoustics, Bachelor Acoustics at Nanjing UniversityMaster Electrical Engineering, Master Electrical Engineering at University of Ottawa
English, Chinese
Github Skills (19)
openshift10
e2e10
cisco10
documentation10
testing9
cnf9
expect9
test-suite9
network-automation8
kubernetes7
kustomize7
react7
ssh7
cli7
automation6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jun-rh/test-network-function
May 2021 - Feb 2022
test-network-function is a collection of test suites aimed at testing Network Function (and in particular CNF) best practices.
Contributions:2 PRs, 152 pushes in 8 months
particulartestingsuitesnetwork-testnetwork-testing
openshift-kni/cluster-group-upgrades-operator
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 618 reviews, 65 commits in 8 months
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