Tzu-mainn Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTzu-mainn Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and automating cloud and infrastructure solutions, currently leading the RHOS Management Integration team at Red Hat. He combines deep OpenStack and OpenShift expertise with strong full-stack and DevOps chops, contributing to projects like Tuskar and significant OpenStack integration work in ManageIQ and its UI. His background spans large-scale consulting engagements where he built continuous build platforms, custom testing frameworks, and content-management systems for enterprise clients. Tzu-mainn is comfortable across layers—from Ansible and Heat templates to backend services and UI enhancements—often focusing on automation, scalability, and operational reliability. Based in Brookline, MA, he pairs an MIT CS and Economics foundation with a talent for translating complex infrastructure requirements into repeatable, auditable deployments. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he has a track record of code cleanup and practical feature work that improves real-world cloud operations.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (44)
cloud-computing10
python10
heat10
ruby10
automation10
openshift10
openstack10
aac10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
openstack-heat10
javascript9
ruby-rails9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/openshift-ansible
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
Install and config an OpenShift 3.x cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:97 commits, 49 PRs, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tzu-mainn primarily focused on infrastructure as code and automation related to OpenShift deployment on OpenStack. Their contributions involved modifying Ansible playbooks and Heat templates to incorporate features like server group policies, network configurations, and cinder volume integrations. They also streamlined the dynamic inventory script, demonstrating a focus on automating OpenShift cluster setup and integration with OpenStack resources. Several commits relate to code cleanup.
ansibleopenshiftk8skubernetesconfig
ManageIQ/manageiq
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:102 commits, 114 PRs, 621 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tzu-mainn primarily contributed to the OpenStack integration within the ManageIQ platform, focusing on the back-end aspects of managing and interacting with OpenStack resources. Their commits involved implementing automation methods for attaching and detaching volumes and scaling down the OpenStack infra provider. The user also addressed bug fixes and made enhancements related to the user interface for OpenStack infra, particularly around maintenance mode and volume management.
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