Frank Fang, Developer in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Frank Fang

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Software Developer

Location
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

National Australia Bank
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Harness CI/CD, Jenkins, Kustomize...
Itoc
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EKS, Terraform, Migration, Artifactory, Xray
WooliesX
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure DevOps...

Experience

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

The most amazing...

...migration I've conducted within the deadline and with minimal downtime involved transforming a legacy AWS organization into a new control-tower-enabled system.

Work Experience

Senior Consultant – DevOps and Automation

2022 - 2023
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.
Technologies: Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Harness CI/CD, Jenkins, Kustomize, Groovy, Terraform

Senior Kubernetes Engineer

2021 - 2022
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EKS, Terraform, Migration, Artifactory, Xray

Kubernetes Platform Engineer

2020 - 2021
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.
Technologies: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Rancher Fleet, Terraform Cloud

Kubernetes Infrastructure Engineer

2020 - 2021
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.
Technologies: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), VMware, VMware Tanzu Application Service (TAS) (Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)), Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Helm, Azure DevOps

Senior Consultant

2019 - 2019
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EKS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, Helm, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Gateways

DevOps Engineer

2018 - 2019
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Atlassian Suite, Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines, EFK Stack, Datadog, AWS CloudFormation, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira, Apache Maven, Selenium, Cucumber, Filebeat, Kibana, Elasticsearch

Cloud and DevOps Engineer

2016 - 2018
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Cloud Engineering

Systems Engineer

2014 - 2016
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.
Technologies: Linux, Windows, VMware

Legacy AWS Migration

Through this project, I successfully migrated AWS accounts from a legacy AWS organization to a new control tower and a landing-zone-enabled system. I completed the migration within the deadline and budget, performing with minimal downtime.

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.
2004 - 2006

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

South China University of Technology - China

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, Artifactory, 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)), AWS Lambda

Other

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Migration, CI/CD Pipelines, Computer Science, Cloud Engineering, GitHub Actions, Migration, GitOps, Rancher Fleet, Harness CI/CD, Kustomize, Xray, Terraform Cloud, Prometheus, Filebeat, Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Gateways

Languages

Python 3, Go, Groovy

Paradigms

DevOps, Automation, Azure DevOps

Frameworks

Selenium

Libraries/APIs

Terragrunt

Storage

Datadog, Elasticsearch

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