Garland Kan, Developer in San Francisco, CA, United States
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Garland Kan

Verified Expert  in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
May 5, 2020

Garland是一名DevOps工程师和顾问,他帮助中小型初创公司大规模运营, reliable applications. Over the past five years, he's worked with many development teams to architect, design, build, optimize, and operate cloud infrastructures using AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Garland维护着一个广泛使用的Kubernetes开源项目,该项目专注于使用Terraform安全地部署Kubernetes系统.

Portfolio

Anthem
亚马逊网络服务(AWS)、云安全、api、SPIFFE、零信任...
Exact Payments
Amazon EKS, Helm, Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines
SaturnCloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Transit Gateway, HIPAA Compliance...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Command-line Interface (CLI), Go, Kubernetes

The most amazing...

...project I've created is an easy way to run Kubernetes services.

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

2020 - PRESENT
Anthem
  • 领导SPIFFE/SPIRE零信任架构的技术实现.
  • 在KinD Kubernetes集群中为本地开发和CI使用构建了一个由十多个微服务组成的应用程序的完整副本.
  • 领导这个新应用程序的技术安全审查工作.
Technologies: 亚马逊网络服务(AWS)、云安全、api、SPIFFE、零信任, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon EKS, Kubernetes

Architect

2021 - 2021
Exact Payments
  • 使信用卡支付处理器能够在金融科技市场上竞争,并建立了公司的下一代系统,以处理Apple Pay和ACH等新功能.
  • Moved the previous system, which was built using Ansible and Terraform on AWS, to a containerized cloud-native platform. 我收集了有关公司最终目标的信息,并制定了实现该目标的计划.
  • Accelerated the project and avoided unnecessary delays, 根据我在过去七年中与30多家公司合作的类似项目的经验.
  • 在四个多月的时间里,协助设计和实施项目架构. 它又花了三个月的时间通过PCI审核并开始处理信用卡支付.
  • 建立一个可观察性系统,其slo覆盖所有在不到500毫秒内完成的事务,正常运行时间为99.99%.
Technologies: Amazon EKS, Helm, Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines

DevOps Engineer

2020 - 2020
SaturnCloud
  • 对AWS环境(超过10个AWS账户)执行安全审计.
  • 生成了关于如何保护或选择更安全的默认值的建议列表.
  • 带领团队完成每个项目背后的建议和思考过程.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Transit Gateway, HIPAA Compliance, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Secure Containers, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Terraform, Flow

DevOps Engineer

2018 - 2020
Expanse
  • 为各种内部web应用程序概念证明(POC)实现零信任计算概念,并将其推广到公司所有用户的生产中.
  • 在AWS和GCP环境中构建Kubernetes平台方面发挥了主导作用. A full GitOps workflow for all applications running on it.
  • 在6个月的时间里,与5个开发团队合作,将他们纳入Kubernetes平台,包括指导,结果是他们能够自给自足地运行额外的Kubernetes和24/7的服务操作.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Transit Gateway, HIPAA Compliance, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Secure Containers, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Terraform, Kubernetes

DevOps Engineer

2017 - 2020
HealthTap
  • 基于基础设施代码和Kubernetes设计下一代应用程序基础设施.
  • Worked with the product management, DevOps, 开发团队也在进行从旧基础设施到新基础设施的迁移计划.
  • Wrote, as an individual contributor, 新基础设施和迁移所需的75%的代码.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Transit Gateway, HIPAA Compliance, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Secure Containers, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes

Cloud Infrastructure/Kubernetes Consultant

2018 - 2019
Leanplum
  • 与客户一起构建并实现一个计划,将他们从Google App Engine转移到GKE环境.
  • Worked with all teams from DevOps, engineering, 在数据科学方面,他们将如何构建自己的应用程序,并将实时流量迁移到新的平台.
  • 向整个公司教授如何使用云和Kubernetes的最佳实践.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Transit Gateway, HIPAA Compliance, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Secure Containers, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Go, Kubernetes

Infrastructure/Kubernetes Consultant

2017 - 2018
Lucidworks
  • 与LucidWorks的管理和开发团队合作,找出问题所在, establish what success would look like, 并最终构建最佳解决方案来实现最终结果.
  • 回答了关于如何构建基础设施以及是否使用配置管理工具(如Chef)的关键问题, Puppet, 或Ansible,以及是否使用CloudFormation或Terraform来构建基础设施,.
  • 帮助LucidWorks解决了一个关键问题:是用配置管理库还是用Kubernetes构建基础架构模型.
  • 说服Lucidworks容器和Kubernetes是创建和管理基础设施的更好方式(时间的流逝证明了这一点),并指导Lucidworks在AWS上构建高度可扩展的基础设施.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), HIPAA Compliance, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Secure Containers, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Apache ZooKeeper, Go, Python, Terraform, Relational Database Services (RDS), Kubernetes

Infrastructure/Kubernetes Consultant

2015 - 2017
Guardant Health
  • 设计并实施了一个计划,将他们的本地侏儒测序管道运行到云端.
  • 在AWS中设计并实现了Kubernetes基础设施,以运行他们所有的web应用程序.
  • Played a lead role in their HIPAA-compliance program.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), HIPAA Compliance, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Secure Containers, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Data Migration, Jenkins, Python, Go, On-premise, Kubernetes

Online Mobile Ordering

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公司:Tillster为肯德基(Kentucky Fried Chicken)和乐蜂(Jollibee)等公司创建在线和移动订购系统. 他们负责这些公司的后端基础设施, 哪一家经常与当地的商店联系以获取他们的菜单和价格. 这些系统也处理信用卡,这意味着他们是受PCI 2级合规.

问题:Tillster在转变他们的开发工作流程和系统方面需要帮助. Deployment of new code was time-consuming, involved many people, and was typically performed during off-hours, which the team disliked. Plus, their infrastructure was hard to maintain.

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Tools

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon EKS, Terraform, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), GoLand, 9-patch, Jenkins, Flow, Apache ZooKeeper, Helm

Platforms

亚马逊网络服务(AWS)、Kubernetes、Docker、谷歌云平台(GCP)

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), On-premise

Other

Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Secure Containers, PCI DSS, Command-line Interface (CLI), Data Migration, AWS Transit Gateway, Relational Database Services (RDS), Zero Trust, SPIFFE, APIs, Cloud Security, CI/CD Pipelines

Paradigms

HIPAA Compliance

Languages

Python, Go

Frameworks

Django, Zend Engine

Libraries/APIs

Node.js

1998 - 2001

Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications

DeVry Institute of Technology - Fremont, CA, USA

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