Samuel Chong
Lead Cloud Engineer at Steadfast Group Limited
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Chong is a Lead Cloud Engineer based in Sydney with a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. He combines hands-on development in Python, Go, PowerShell, Java and C# with production deployment expertise using Terraform, Docker, Chef, Jenkins, Vault and Consul. A frequent open-source contributor, Samuel has improved Apache Libcloud to support newer CaaS APIs and authored a Terraform provider plugin for Dimension Data, reflecting a knack for bridging provider APIs with operator tooling. His background spans DevOps, release engineering and QA—having built automation frameworks and managed Jenkins environments—so he brings both code-level rigor and operational maturity to platform initiatives. Notably, he pairs enterprise-grade automation work with community contributions, showing a commitment to improving cloud tooling beyond his day job.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Diploma, Theology, Graduate Diploma, Theology at Harvest Bible CollegeMaster, Computing in Internet Programming, Master, Computing in Internet Programming at Swinburne University of TechnologyBachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at Monash University
English
Github Skills (7)
libcloud10
api10
python10
apidoc10
cloud-computing9
testing8
apache7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 10 PRs, 16 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Samuel's commits primarily focused on updating the codebase to utilize CaaS API 2.3, a significant upgrade from the previous API version. This involved modifying test files to reflect changes in the API, including adjustments to URL filters and responses. The user also made changes to common files and modified and created test files to maintain and enhance compatibility and functionality with the upgraded API version.
python-libraryapilibcloudpythonhides
samuelchong/libcloud
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:56 pushes, 18 branches in 6 months
python-libraryapilibcloudpythonhides
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