Po-yao Chen
Sr Software Dev Engineer at Yahoo
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolPo-yao Chen is a senior software engineer based in Dublin with 11 years of experience building secure, cloud-native infrastructure and automation. He has deep practical expertise in Go, Kubernetes, AWS, and DevSecOps, having shipped image-security and policy-enforcement features that prevent prioritized vulnerabilities across large-scale cluster deployments. At Yahoo he designed and extended critical PKI and SSH-CA systems—handling millions of daily requests—implementing ephemeral certificate workflows and MFA-backed services for automation and deployment. He combines hands-on systems programming with observability work (Prometheus/Grafana) and CI/CD automation to ensure reliability from build pipelines to production. Po-yao’s background in data engineering and quantitative research gives him a practical edge in turning telemetry and logs into actionable security and operational improvements.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityHigh School, High School at Shanghai Taiwanese Children School
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (25)
security10
access-token10
hsm10
authorization10
signer10
ca10
pkcs10
role-based-access-control10
spiffe9
authentication9
rbac9
provisioning9
cryptography9
access-control9
sketchup6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alan4chen/cloudsera-CNL-Final
May 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
theparanoids/ysshra
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 releases, 25 reviews, 49 commits in 1 year
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