Summary
Simon Chiang is a DevOps and API consultant with 18 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native CI/CD systems, notably building CloudFormation-driven pipelines, ECS/Lambda deployments, and secure artifact/secret management for HIPAA-regulated environments. Based in Denver, he combines hands-on infrastructure skills (AWS, Docker, IAM, KMS) with developer-facing API and system design work, having migrated legacy apps into automated, self-healing platforms. A former principal engineer and team builder, he’s trained engineers across disciplines and rolled out platform services company-wide. His scientific background in mass spectrometry and physics informs a data-driven, methodical approach to engineering and tooling, and he’s an active open-source contributor who enjoys consulting and teaching alongside production work.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Biomolecular Structure, Biomolecular Structure at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at University of Colorado Boulder