Summary
Mike Chen is an experienced research-focused systems engineer with 11 years building and managing Linux HPC and OpenStack-based clusters for universities and government research institutes. He has planned and deployed 30+ clusters ranging from 3 to 100+ nodes, including work on Infiniband networks, MPI tuning, Ceph and Lustre storage, and benchmarking compilers and accelerators for atmospheric and geoscience modeling. Comfortable in hands-on lab and field roles, he combines hardware procurement and infrastructure installation with software porting, makefile edits, and automation scripting to deliver reproducible test environments. His background spans single-host virtualization (VMware, KVM) to container and cloud tech (Docker, OpenStack, early Kubernetes exposure), and he excels at peer-to-peer problem solving and documentation. Preferring technical support and engineering practice over people management, he brings steady, detail-oriented execution for research computing needs in the Taipei–Keelung region.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Applied Chemistry, MS, Applied Chemistry at National Chiao Tung University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at National Taiwan University