Rico Lin
OpenStack Cloud Engineer at VEXXHOST Inc.
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolRico Lin is an OpenStack Cloud Engineer with 11 years in software engineering and eight years of focused Cloud IaaS/PaaS and Python development. He combines hands-on platform work—designing OpenStack deployment and HA solutions, automation with Ansible/Puppet, and container integration (Kubernetes/Docker)—with long-standing upstream leadership as a Heat core developer, SIG chair, and OpenInfra board member. A proven community builder, he founded OpenInfra Days Asia, organized the first OpenStack Application hackathon, and is a multi-time summit keynote speaker and certified OpenStack community “Hero.” Comfortable working across architecture, operations, and customer consulting, he’s known for clear communication, high EQ, and fast independent ramp-up. Notably, he balances deep technical contributions (trackable on Stackalytics) with strategic governance roles that shape OpenStack’s multi-architecture and automation directions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 71.93, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 71.93 at Ming Chuan UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.89, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.89 at National Chung Cheng University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (180)
cinder10
heat10
ovirt10
infrastructure10
cloud-platform10
vms10
orchestration10
k8s10
cloud-foundry10
sdk10
golang10
opendev10
autoscaling10
openstack-sdk10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/heat-tempest-plugin
Apr 2016 - Nov 2020
OpenStack Orchestration (Heat) Tempest Plugin
Contributions:23 commits in 4 years 8 months
orchestrationcloud-foundryheatfogpcf
openstack/governance-sigs
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:16 commits in 2 years 9 months
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