Tom Chen
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Xero
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolTom Chen is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Melbourne with 8 years of production-facing platform and cloud experience, now at Xero after leading platform initiatives at SEEK. He designs and automates AWS and hybrid infrastructures using IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), builds Kubernetes developer platforms and ingress solutions, and reduces operational toil with tools in Python, Go and Bash. A security-first practitioner, he couples monitoring and observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk) with pragmatic automation to improve uptime and incident response. Tom mentors engineers, runs internal tech talks, and has a habit of turning Googling into practical, reusable tooling—samples and thoughts available at tomking.xyz and his GitHub.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, IT, Bachelor, IT at University of Ballarat
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Github Skills (75)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tomkingchen/tomkingblog
Sep 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
tomkingchen/PowershellScripts
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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