Kurt Tan

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

New York, New York, United States23 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 19 years of experience in IT with world-class companies.
  • Expert in Cloud Computing and DevOps automation.
  • Architected scalable HPC infrastructure for AI/ML research.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and DevOps expert in the Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingKubernetesDevops

Other Skills

Computer ScienceSlurm Workload ManagerPython (Programming Language)PythonTerraformHelmDockerAWSReliabilityJenkinsAnsibleOpenStackRackspaceTerraform/Ansible/ChefDocker Container / Kubernetes

About

- 19 years of working experience in IT sector in World-Class companies Current: Infrastructure & Cloud HPC engineer@ Tower Research Capital Past: - Infrastructure & Cloud DevOps Automation @Hedgeserv - Cloud Architect @XCellair and InterDigital - Chief Cloud Architect @CloudXCore Technology (Self Owned) - Senior Cloud Architect, Product Line Management at Seagate Technology - Senior Solution Architect in EMC Solution Design and Validation Center - Sr.System Engineer (TSE3, Team Lead), EMC Corporation, BRS, Global Service Specialties: Cloud Computing, DevOps, Terraform/Ansible/Chef, Docker Container / Kubernetes, AWS(Amazon Web Services) EC2/ELB/S3/VPC, Business Continuous, Disaster Recovery

Experience

23 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Tower research capital

Senior SRE Engineer (High Performance Computing and Hybrid Cloud)

Oct 2020Present · 5 yrs 8 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Architected and scaled Tower Research’s HPC and GPU-accelerated compute infrastructure 10×, enabling low-latency and large-scale AI/ML research.
  • Designed end-to-end orchestration and automation using Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and Config Management tools across hybrid on-prem and cloud environments.
  • Drove system-wide performance engineering—from kernel tuning to distributed storage optimization (VAST, WEKA, GCP)
  • establishing robust, reproducible, and high-throughput compute platforms for quant workloads.
Computer ScienceKubernetesSlurm Workload ManagerCloud ComputingPython (Programming Language)

Caserta

Cloud Architect

Jun 2020Oct 2020 · 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Build data platform by using Cloud Automation technologies
  • (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Matillion, Snowflake, rStudio Pro, AWS landing zone and full AWS services)
Computer ScienceCloud Computing

Hedgeserv

Sr. Cloud Automation Engineer - DevOps

Nov 2016Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Infrastructure, DevOps and Cloud Automation
  • Automation everything with Jenkins / Codepipeline CD/CI for build/test/deploy/production
  • Chef / Ansible configuration management
  • Terraform / Scalr CMP for AWS cloud provisioning
  • Docker / K8S containerization for HedgeFund applications
  • Python / Ruby / Powershell / Bash
  • Networks / Load Balancer and Security management with automation manager
  • ELK monitoring with automation deployment
  • Manage more than 6000+ virtual servers
  • API usage on varieties AWS services(EC2, S3, API gateway, Lamda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, CloudWatch, etc ...)
Computer ScienceReliabilityDevOps

Xcellair

Cloud Architect

Jan 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Build cloud automation & orchestration tools that enable customers to access & run Xcellairs SaaS network mgmt softw on various cloud frameworks -- Rackspace, Amazon Web Services, OpenStack. DevOps
  • XCellAir(fully owned by Interdigital LLC.(NASDAQ:IDCC) offers one of the industry's first cloud-based, multi-vendor, multi-technology mobile network management and optimization solutions. Our strategic ecosystem features a network comprised of Wi-Fi access points and LTE small cell vendors, as well as self-organizing network (SON) suppliers that will help wireless service providers unlock untapped potential of Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) consisting of Wi-Fi and / or cellular small cells.
Computer ScienceReliabilityCloud Computing

Interdigital, inc.

Sr. Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform

May 2014Dec 2014 · 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Architecting and Implementing Cloud Orchestration and Automation SaaS network mgmt platform
Computer ScienceCloud Computing

Cloudxcore technology

Chief Cloud Architect

Aug 2013May 2014 · 9 mos · San Jose, Shenzhen

  • Cloud integration solutions (Mobile App hosting, Enterprise application hosting, Big Data, etc.) design, deployment, evaluations, consulting and professional services.
  • Lead the POC demo projects of private Cloud (Vmware vCloud, Openstack) / Public Cloud (Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Ali Cloud, Tencent Cloud)
  • Cloud Solution / Products supplier’s solution evaluation, business model strategy and partnership build-up (Nutanix, SUSE, Redhat, Swiftstack, AMAX, Vmware, Alibaba Cloud)
  • Cloud / Big data summit meeting attending and keynote, building up the connection and relationship with solution providers(e.g in Openstack Summit, with Redhat, AWS, Rackspace, Facebook, Vmware, HP, Mirantis, Piston, SUSE/NOVELL, and etc.)

Seagate technology

Senior Cloud Architect, Product Line Management

Nov 2012Aug 2013 · 9 mos

  • Working directly with Cloud customers and partners and broadly across multiple Seagate functions to provide technical expertise in orchestrating and leading technical pre-sales and delivery of holistic, optimized Cloud storage solutions.
  • Providing technical leadership in the evaluation, design and delivery of new storage design solutions targeted at cloud infrastructures.

Freelancer infrastructure consultant

Independent Consultant - Cloud Computing

Nov 2011Nov 2012 · 1 yr · Shanghai

  • Independent Consultant for Cloud Infrastructure, Virtualization, Storage, Business Continuous, Backup & Recovery Solutions. Sourcing the Cloud Service Providers like Capgemini, AWS Amazon Web Service to provide the world-class cloud solutions to my end clients.

Emc

2 roles

Sr. Solution Architect

Feb 2010Nov 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Enrolled into the Solution Design Center providing the following responsibility to the pre-sales and sales team:
  • Solution Designs
  • Feature & Benefit to Customer Objectives Mapping(Service Level Agreement, Financial Plan, etc.)
  • Solution Competitive Information
  • Follow up Design Questions
  • Solution validation
  • Risk Analysis, for example, Data Consistency, Data Loss, etc
  • Performance Sizing
  • Installation and Implementation Assistance
  • Consultative Recommendation

Senior Networks & System engineer(TSE3) and Team Lead

Oct 2008Feb 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Lead the team for the Avamar system upgrade project.
  • Build the EMC Shanghai COE R&D local lab and act as the BU interface and coordinator for other departments.
  • Coaching and mentoring the junior technical support and build up the team knowledge for the required technical fields.
  • Provide accurate matrix report for the management level indicating the project progress and statistics.
  • Handle Customer support cases for EMC Avamar product.
  • Solve highly complex level of problems, involving broad, in-depth product knowledge or in-depth product specialty;
  • Responsible for efficiently managing the relationship with these customers and thoroughly documenting their cases.
  • Acting as bridge between Customer, Field Technical Specialists, Account Managers, Sales, other EMC Technical Support co-workers, next level engineering and development as appropriate for handling complex customer issues.

Nortel networks guangzhou r&d

Sr. Software engineer & Sr. Networks & System engineer in USP and NGN

Aug 2002Sep 2008 · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • Worked as the Software Development Engineer for Core switch and feature development
  • Worked on Nortel NGN & USP products global customer technical support in presale & post sale phase

Education

Shantou University

Bachelor's degree — Electronics Information Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2002

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