Kiefer Chang
Principal Engineer at SUSE
Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolKiefer Chang is a Principal Engineer with over 15 years building and leading teams that deliver cloud-native infrastructure, distributed storage, and hyper-converged solutions from prototype to enterprise release. At SUSE he helped drive Harvester HCI to GA and contributed 100+ upstream Ceph changes, spanning backend, frontend and orchestrator integrations. He blends hands-on engineering (admission webhooks, upgrade systems, support-bundle tooling) with release ownership and mentoring of cross-functional teams. Prior roles include architecting HPC and mixed CPU/GPU resource platforms and a Ceph-based PACS mirror for AI healthcare workloads, showing a knack for domain-focused system design. Based in Taiwan, he is an active open-source contributor who improves both UX and low-level storage orchestration. Colleagues rely on him to turn operational complexity into stable, upgradeable platforms that scale in production.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Realtime & Embedded system, Master's degree, Realtime & Embedded system at National Cheng Kung University
Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
python10
back-end-development10
harvest10
go10
har10
kubernetes-pods10
ceph10
orchestration10
javascript9
cicd9
apidoc9
front-end-development9
api9
html8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
harvester/harvester
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 1392 reviews, 192 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Kiefer's contributions primarily focused on implementing a support bundle feature within the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software. They added a custom resource and controller for managing support bundles, including the ability to download them. The user also added settings for the support bundle image and related configurations. Additionally, the user was involved in enhancing the upgrade process, including fixing issues with the operating system upgrade and introducing measures to improve the stability and reliability of node upgrades.
sdnvirtualizationhybrid-cloudvmscitrix
ceph/ceph
May 2019 - Dec 2020
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Role in this project:Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:111 reviews, 206 commits, 161 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kiefer primarily contributed to the Ceph Dashboard, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements. They addressed issues related to UI/UX elements, such as the deletion of OSD modals and host attribute display. Additionally, they made changes to the backend, including modifying NFS-Ganesha endpoints and integrating Orchestrator features. The user's work involved both front-end modifications (HTML/TS/JS) and back-end code changes (Python), improving the overall user experience and functionality of the dashboard.
fusefile-storagecephstorageopenebs
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