Wei-yen Tan
Senior Platform Engineer Compute Automation Lead
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolWei-yen Tan is a Senior Platform Engineer and Compute Automation Lead with a decade of experience building and operating production-grade container platforms, currently leading Kubernetes and compute automation at Datacom in Wellington. He specializes in Rancher and AKS, designing scalable, secure automation to improve developer experience and operational efficiency across diverse environments. His background spans hands-on systems engineering and automation scripting back to early roles where he saved hundreds of manual hours through PowerShell tools and process improvements. Comfortable across on-prem and cloud ecosystems, he combines deep operational instincts with platform design to simplify deployments for critical applications. Beyond platforms, his career shows a steady progression from desktop and service-desk troubleshooting to owning enterprise automation and platform reliability.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.A, Chinese and Human Resources Management, M.A, Chinese and Human Resources Management at Waikato University
Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (113)
postgresql10
python10
high-availability10
hat10
failover10
prometheus-exporter10
automation10
disaster-recovery10
database-management10
rest-api10
k8s10
streaming10
operator10
django10
architecture10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
weiyentan/weiyentan.github.io
Jul 2019 - Jun 2024
System engineer blog about Automation of sorts
Contributions:39 PRs, 91 pushes, 19 branches in 5 years
automationsorts
weiyentan/ansible_roles
Dec 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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