DennyZhang

DevOps + Corp-2-Corp Contact/Consultant

Contact Summary
888 Washington St.,
Suite 301 • 7 years, Full-time working experience in Cloud industry.
Dedham, MA 02026 • Good at fast deployment test and fault tolerant deploy by Docker, Chef Kitchen and Jenkins.
• Expereinced in hybrid cloud management: AWS, OpenStack and virtual appliance etc
+1-832-312-XXXX • Certification: AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate and AWS SysOps.
• Certification: Certified Chef developer. Active Chef supermarket contributor.
gmail:denny.zhang001 • Diehard emacs veteran with deep belief in automation.
web:dennyzhang.com • Slogan: Don’t Repeat Yourself; Do Less For More; Don’t Make Same Mistake Twice.
github:DennyZhang
linkedin:DennyZhang
Experience
OpenSource DevOps
Consultant at TOTVS Labs, Mountain View, CA
Jul 2014 - Now
Commits Work remotely from Houston.
10+ Chef Cookbooks
Build and manage all infra layer for a cluster based SaaS product
5+ Nagios Plugins
• [Build] Deliver a reliable and fully automated deploy process for any cluster envs and
60+ OpenStack
on-premise envs by Chef
12,607 lines Emacs
• [Debug] Always on top of issues and properly handle almost all major issues
• [Monitoring] Auto configure monitoring system with comprehensive checks and alerts
• [Jenkins] Build up a reliable Jenkins System which greatly improved old QA process
Skills • [Operate] Timely and reliable support for all prod envs: deploy, upgrade, operate and
♥Chef, OpenStack♥
unlimited trouble shooting
Docker, Nagios,
Puppet, Linux, Zabbix,
RabbitMQ, Jenkins DevOps
Consultant at OSC Technologies, LLC, Boston
Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
Work remotely from Houston.
Programming Work as DevOps lead for multiple startup projects
Python, Bash, Ruby, • POC for 2 seed projects from my own ideas
C++, ObjectC, Erlang, • Setup and operate internal OpenStack private cloud
Golang, Elisp, R • Contribute 10+ Chef cookbooks to Chef Supermarket
https://supermarket.chef.io/users/dennyzhang001
• Contribute 5+ Nagios Plugins to Nagios Exhange Market
Methodology http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Owner/dennyzhang/1
TDD, GTD
Pomodoro OpenStack
Community
Engineer at UnitedStack Inc. Santa Clara, CA
Lean Startup Aug 2013 - Feb 2014
Ask 5 Why Work remotely from Houston.
Build up autonomy engineer culture; OpenStack individual contributor
• [Community] Finish 60+ OpenStack commits: heat,tempest,devstack,etc
http://stackalytics.com...denny-6
• [Puppet/Jenkins] Setup CI/CD system, simliar like OpenStack-infra
• [Operate] Capable to debug OpenStack nova, neutron and heat problems
Fullstack
Developer
&
Architect at ShopEx Network Technology Co., Ltd. Shanghai
May 2011 - July 2013 (2 years 2 months)
Design, implement and operate a PaaS platform from the very begining
It’s specialized for ECommerce industry, mostly by Erlang
• [Dev] Implemented a distributed picture storage, like hybridizing S3 with haystack
• [Dev] Implemented a reliable, distributed, async task engine, for multi-tenants
• [Monitoring] Enabled puppet to automatically maintain Zabbix monitor items
• [CI] Automated all CI stages by Jenkins/Rpmbuild/Puppet/Tsung/etc
• [CI] Simulate monkey chaos tests, like service crash, random reboot, etc
• [HA]Performance tuning, identity system’s SPOF and inefficiency

Software
Engineer at EMC Corporation, Shanghai
July 2008 - April 2011 (2 years 10 months)
Atmos is an EMC’s killer product for cloud storage.
Support rolling upgrade feature of Atmos
• [Python/C++] On-line rolling upgrade, parallel installation, and service migration
• [Linux] Involved in all open issues’ trouble shooting before product release
• [Linux] Performance test for filesystem CRUD by POSIX VFS API and REST HTTP API
• [C++] Prototype for the feature of DragAndDropTo /PrintingTo/EmailTo Atmos

Certification
May, 2015 AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate By Amazon KRYTERION
Feb, 2015 Chef Certificate of AWESOME By Chef Software, Inc.
Jun, 2010 China Certified System Analyst By Chinese National Qualification Certificate Of Proficiency

Sharing
Side Projects at Github
Jan 2008 - Present

• denny-chef-devops: Chef cookbooks for devops.

https://github.com/DennyZhang/denny-chef-devops
• Emacs configuration with over 11,000 lines.
https://github.com/DennyZhang/Denny-s-emacs-configuration
• Xiaozibao: Build your own magzine.
https://github.com/DennyZhang/xiaozibao

Public Sharing at Internet

Aug 2008 - Present

• Personal website
http://www.dennyzhang.com
• Delivered a public speech: How To Test PaaS Platform
http://www.slideshare.net/filebat/how-to-test-cloud-platform
• Internal sharing: Personal knowledge base management
http://www.slideshare.net/filebat/personal-knowledge-base-management

Education
2006 - 2008 Masters of Computer Science Sun Yat-Sen University, China
2002 - 2006 Bachelor of Computer Science Sun Yat-Sen University, China