Frank Fang
Verified Expert in Engineering
Amazon EKS Developer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Toptal member since July 7, 2023
Frank is a professional cloud, DevOps, and Kubernetes engineer with extensive hands-on experience. He has in-depth knowledge of cloud and containerization platforms, CI/CD methodologies, and IT systems design and automation. Besides his can-do attitude, exceptional communication, and multitasking skills, Frank excels at providing solutions to achieve high availability and performance while reducing business costs.
Portfolio
Experience
- Amazon EKS - 6 years
- Automation - 6 years
- DevOps - 6 years
- Terraform - 6 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
- Kubernetes - 6 years
- AWS CloudFormation - 5 years
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - 4 years
Work Experience
Senior Consultant – DevOps and Automation
National Australia Bank
- Automated Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) CI/CD via Harness CI/CD and Kustomize.
- Managed multi-cluster deployment of Amazon EKS via Jenkins, Groovy, and Terraform.
- Migrated legacy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) modules to the Terraform cloud platform.
Senior Kubernetes Engineer
Itoc
- Led the migration of AWS accounts from legacy to control-tower systems within the deadline and with minimal downtime.
- Containerized applications using Artifactory and Xray as significant enterprise artifact registry systems.
- Migrated the Atlassian Suite, including Jira and Confluence, to the Amazon EKS platform.
Kubernetes Platform Engineer
WooliesX
- Deployed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) infrastructure with Azure DevOps, managing breaks, fixes, and upgrades.
- Set up Rancher Fleet as GitOps to streamline multi-AKS cluster management.
- Improved containerization monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.
- Implemented Terraform Cloud as code and migrated applications to it.
Kubernetes Infrastructure Engineer
ASX
- Deployed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) infrastructure using Istio with Terragrunt, Helm, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions, managing breaks, fixes, and upgrades.
- Administered containerization monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.
- Implemented Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) infrastructure using Istio with Terragrunt, Helm, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions, managing breaks, fixes, and upgrades.
Senior Consultant
CMD Solutions
- Migrated legacy apps to Amazon EKS with Terraform and Helm.
- Deployed AWS infrastructure and landing zones using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Implemented API Gateways, AWS Lambda, and a web application firewall (WAF) with a serverless platform.
DevOps Engineer
Healthdirect
- Managed AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
- Implemented DevOps methodologies and improved CI/CD processes in major government healthcare sites through Bamboo, Jira, Bitbucket, and Apache Maven.
- Configured automated tests in CI/CD using Selenium and Cucumber.
- Managed infrastructure logging via Filebeat, Kibana, and Elasticsearch. I also administered the infrastructure monitoring system with Datadog.
Cloud and DevOps Engineer
Macquarie Health
- Facilitated and supported the development team through various tasks.
- Migrated on-premise systems to AWS and Azure and managed cloud infrastructure.
- Set up and automated the CI/CD pipeline for major applications.
Systems Engineer
Magnamail
- Streamlined IT systems and processes to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Diagnosed and rectified major production issues to diminish downtime and ensure timely and smooth product releases.
- Analyzed and refactored legacy software to reduce running costs.
Project History
Legacy AWS Migration
I was the key subject-matter expert implementing the solution. My duties ranged from migrating all IAM users, roles, and groups to the new AWS identity center model, refactoring AWS Systems Manager parameters and logging solutions via AWS Lambda scripting and infrastructure as code. I also introduced shared VPC endpoints across the organization to cut running costs.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
South China University of Technology - China
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt
Tools
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Helm, Ansible, ELK (Elastic Stack), Atlassian Suite, EFK Stack, VMware, Istio, Jenkins, Kustomize, Artifactory, Jira Xray, Grafana, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira, Apache Maven, Cucumber, Kibana
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Linux, Windows, VMware Tanzu Application Service (TAS) (Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)), Harness, AWS Lambda
Languages
Python 3, Go, Groovy
Paradigms
DevOps, Automation, Azure DevOps
Frameworks
Selenium
Storage
Datadog, Elasticsearch
Other
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Migration, CI/CD Pipelines, Computer Science, Cloud Engineering, GitHub Actions, Migration, GitOps, Rancher Fleet, Terraform Cloud, Prometheus, Filebeat, Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Gateways
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