DevOps / Platform Engineer with 9+ years of software engineering experience and hands-on ownership of AWS EKS platforms, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, security, and production support. Managed AWS EKS platforms supporting 50 services across 31 repositories, improving deployment and Kubernetes operations. Recent work includes cost and reliability improvements via cloud resource cleanup, right-sizing and reserved instance planning, and migration from Datadog to Grafana OSS using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Alloy, Tempo, and Loki. Comfortable partnering with delivery teams to modernize infrastructure and keep production services stable through troubleshooting and incident response.

Yun Leng Chew

DevOps / Platform Engineer with 9+ years of software engineering experience and hands-on ownership of AWS EKS platforms, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, security, and production support. Managed AWS EKS platforms supporting 50 services across 31 repositories, improving deployment and Kubernetes operations. Recent work includes cost and reliability improvements via cloud resource cleanup, right-sizing and reserved instance planning, and migration from Datadog to Grafana OSS using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Alloy, Tempo, and Loki. Comfortable partnering with delivery teams to modernize infrastructure and keep production services stable through troubleshooting and incident response.

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DevOps / Platform Engineer with 9+ years of software engineering experience and hands-on ownership of AWS EKS platforms, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, security, and production support. Managed AWS EKS platforms supporting 50 services across 31 repositories, improving deployment and Kubernetes operations.

Recent work includes cost and reliability improvements via cloud resource cleanup, right-sizing and reserved instance planning, and migration from Datadog to Grafana OSS using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Alloy, Tempo, and Loki. Comfortable partnering with delivery teams to modernize infrastructure and keep production services stable through troubleshooting and incident response.

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Chinese
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English
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Malay
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German
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Work Experience

DevOps Engineer (Part-time Remote Contract) at YepHome / YepAI
March 1, 2025 - Present
Served as the only DevOps and infrastructure owner for a 12-person delivery team, managing AWS and Kubernetes platforms across 50 services, 31 repositories, 4 EKS clusters, and 2 AWS accounts. Proposed and built AWS/EKS infrastructure based on platform requirements, including VPC, EKS, node groups, IAM, add-ons, ingress/load balancers, Helm deployments, and monitoring. Modernized the platform by moving Kong Gateway from ECS to EKS, replacing Sealed Secrets with External Secrets Operator, and replacing NGINX Ingress with Envoy Gateway. Standardized CI/CD by replacing Jenkins with reusable GitHub Actions workflows across repositories, covering build and rollout workflows for frontend/backend, Docker images, Helm deployments, and branch-based releases. Operated EKS platform components with IaC modules and environment configuration, handled version upgrades and production troubleshooting, improved security (IMDSv2, EKS Pod Identity, tighter IAM/RBAC, AWS WAF managed rules, Secrets Manage
Full-Stack Developer at Mercedes-Benz Malaysia
February 1, 2021 - Present
Handled cloud and DevOps work alongside full-stack development, supporting two Mercedes-Benz platforms with 33 applications. Built reusable Azure DevOps pipeline templates for consistent deployments (applications, serverless, Kubernetes, Azure data workloads, and GitHub Actions). Deployed and supported Kubernetes applications with Docker and Helm including autoscaling and rollout troubleshooting. Built AWS/Azure infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu/AWS CDK for monitoring automation, environment configuration, OpenSearch, and AWS serverless workloads. Led migration from Azure PostgreSQL Single Server to Flexible Server across seven microservices, managed availability during cutover, and improved application security using ALB mutual TLS, Trivy scanning, and certificate automation. Provided 24/7 on-call support, incident investigations, root cause analysis, and post-incident prevention actions.
Senior Software Engineer at Worldline Global
January 1, 2020 - February 1, 2021
Improved Angular application performance by fixing memory leaks and removing unnecessary code execution. Introduced GraphQL to reduce unnecessary API data transfer, decreasing response size by 85–90%. Coordinated development across teams in Malaysia, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong for a multi-module Angular application.
Software Engineer at Concorde Solutions & Services
November 1, 2017 - December 1, 2019
Set up a six-node Cloudera proof-of-concept cluster for AEON Credit Service, covering Red Hat and Cloudera installation for a proposed integration between Cloudera and Informatica data pipelines.
Database Application Engineer (Contract) at DXC Technology
January 1, 2017 - October 1, 2017
Intern at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
July 1, 2016 - January 1, 2017

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science (Software Engineering) at University Malaysia Terenggany
September 1, 2013 - November 1, 2017
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (Software Engineering) at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
September 1, 2013 - December 1, 2017

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Financial Services