Mei-Lin Chen

About Mei-Lin

I'm a backend and DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience building high-availability distributed systems. My expertise spans Go microservices, Kubernetes orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform. I've designed and operated platforms serving billions of requests, and I'm passionate about reliability engineering, observability, and reducing operational toil through automation.

Top Achievements

• Designed developer platform serving 3,000+ engineers
• Led monolith-to-microservices migration with zero downtime
• Achieved perfect 5.0 client rating across all engagements

Tech Stack

GoKubernetesTerraformDockerAWS

Work History

Principal DevOps Engineer at TSMC (Cloud Platform)

Apr 2022 – Present

Designed and built the internal developer platform serving 3,000+ engineers. Implemented GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, reducing deployment times from hours to minutes.

KubernetesTerraformGoAWS

Senior Backend Engineer at PicCollage

Aug 2018 – Mar 2022

Built the image processing pipeline handling 10M+ daily uploads. Led the migration from monolith to microservices architecture on Kubernetes.

GoDockerKubernetesAWS

Backend Developer at Trend Micro

Jan 2015 – Jul 2018

Developed threat detection services processing real-time security data streams. Built automated infrastructure provisioning reducing setup time by 80%.

GoDockerTerraform

Education & Awards