Zespre Chang
Senior Software Engineer at FreeBSD Foundation
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolZespre Chang is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, virtualization, and resilient upgrade workflows. Based in New Taipei, Taiwan, he has driven networking architecture and enterprise-grade load balancing for SUSE Harvester, integrating projects like Kube-OVN and contributing to upstream efforts such as kube-vip. Known as the go-to engineer for complex upgrade procedures, he built observability tooling to capture ephemeral upgrade logs and automated many release and release-candidate tasks to modernize the pipeline. He also ported OpenStack components to FreeBSD, packaging them as ports and demonstrating end-to-end feasibility—evidence of his knack for bridging platforms. His GitHub motto, "Automate the hardest part," is reflected in pragmatic automation and reliability improvements that reduce operational toil for both community users and customers.
13 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
scripting10
harvest10
automation10
script10
har10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
automations10
shell10
go7
jenkins6
maven6
yaml6
docker6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
harvester/harvester
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:403 reviews, 31 commits, 165 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zespre's contributions primarily focused on improving the upgrade process of the Harvester HCI software. Their work involved implementing checks for minimum upgrade versions, integrating retry mechanisms for file downloads and VM operations, and enhancing the upgrade script's error handling and logging. They also addressed issues related to multi-node draining during upgrades and ensured that the upgrade repository VM started correctly.
sdnvirtualizationhybrid-cloudvmscitrix
starbops/docs
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:66 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 4 months
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