Jonathan Chen
@jonathanchen2
I build reliable cloud platforms and safer payment deployments at scale.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
At Venmo and PayPal, I lead payment reliability standards, multi-cluster deployment platforms, GitOps release workflows, and self-service infrastructure APIs. I connect customer-journey SLOs with dependency health so incidents reveal business impact, and I remain hands-on with Go, Python, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
Previously at Optum, I built regulated Azure and AKS platforms for healthcare teams, improving onboarding, cluster upgrades, disaster recovery testing, and service-level observability. I enjoy turning recurring production failures into practical platform guardrails while mentoring engineers through incidents, architecture reviews, and operational design.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Staff DevOps Engineer
PayPal - Venmo
Jun 2021 - Present (5 years 2 months)
Led payment reliability standards across Venmo services, connecting customer journey SLOs with dependency health. Designed a multi-cluster deployment platform for safer canary releases and automated rollback, and rebuilt release workflows around shared GitOps patterns.
Spearheaded a regulated AKS platform for healthcare application teams, packaging networking, identity, secrets, policy, and observability. Overhauled cluster upgrade practices and established SLOs and burn rate alerting to catch slow failures.
Built reusable Azure environment templates for healthcare teams, replacing manual portal setup with version-controlled infrastructure. Streamlined build and release pipelines and refactored infrastructure delivery around Terraform.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Delaware
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
2013 - 2017
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Delaware from 2013 to 2017.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Apache Spark
GitHub
GitLab
GitHub Enterprise
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
PostgreSQL
Databricks
Redis
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Pulumi
Azure Resource Manager
Azure DevOps
Jira
JSON
PowerShell
Kafka
PagerDuty
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Azure Monitor
Windows
PayPal
Datadog
Red Hat OpenShift
Ansible
GuardRails
Atlantis
SQL
Plane
ArgoCD
Terragrunt
Burn
Bash
Checkov
Karpenter
Namespace
Availability
Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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