Phil Chen
Sr. DevOps Architect at Qpoint
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Chen is a seasoned Sr. DevOps Architect based in San Diego with over 25 years building scalable, resilient, and secure platforms across startups and enterprise environments. He currently leads DevOps and information security at Tiled while advising on the Qpoint board, blending hands-on cloud architecture with security leadership. His background includes senior cloud and DevOps roles at AWS, GoPro, and as a CTO/co-founder, giving him deep operational experience from data center to modern cloud-native deployments. Phil pairs a systems-first engineering mindset with practical security governance, having moved between engineering, security management, and executive technical leadership. Unusually for someone in infrastructure, his academic roots are in industrial-organizational psychology, which informs his approach to team dynamics and operational culture. He’s known for turning complex, auditable requirements into pragmatic, production-ready systems that scale.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Psychology emphasis I-O (minor Sociology emphasis Social Control), Bachelor's degree Psychology emphasis I-O (minor Sociology emphasis Social Control) at San Diego State University
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Github Skills (54)
aws-codepipeline10
aws-cloudtrail10
aws-elb10
aws10
aws-codebuild10
aws-alb9
rds-mysql9
udp9
aws-vpc9
tcp9
aws-cloudformation9
s3-bucket9
serverless9
serverless-framework8
linux8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
getcft/aws-cloudtrail-cf-template
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
AWS CloudTrail CloudFormation template which creates KMS encryption keys, an encrypted S3 bucket, and enables CloudTrail
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 14 PRs in 4 months
aws-cloudtrailcloudtrailencryptions3-bucketcloudformation
getcft/aws-encrypted-rds-cf-template
Dec 2018 - May 2019
This solution creates an encrypted AWS RDS MySQL database leveraging a AWS KMS key into a VPC private subnet zone.
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
awsdatabaserds-mysqlsubnetvpc
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