# Winson Chan

> Let's build something!

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/winsonchan

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Systems Engineer @ Extreme Networks
Jan 2017 – Present | San Jose, CA
Contribute as a senior and mentor role in architecture, feature design and development for StackStorm, an open source project under the Linux Foundation for event driven automation (IFTTT for DevOps). A member of the Technical Steering Committee and senior maintainer on this project. Inventor of the workflow engine called Orquesta that is being used to run user defined workflows in StackStorm. Successes with migrating services from a microservice architecture to serverless. Experiences with leading the team on roadmap, development, CI/CD, product releases, and customer support.

Engineered container-based infrastructure services, management features, and APIs for the Extreme Fabric Automation and Extreme Visibility Manager products. Developed product features such as forwarding and persistence of secure syslog messages from network devices and subscription-based notification service for application messages and events. Implemented HA, monitoring, notification, and automated recovery of infrastructure components.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Brocade
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, CA
Senior and mentor role in architecture, feature design and development for StackStorm, an event driven automation platform (IFTTT for devops). Lead role in roadmap planning, automation of the release process, and engineering support. Core contributor to Mistral, a workflow as a service for OpenStack. StackStorm was acquired by Extreme Networks on October 2017 as part of Brocade's data center network business.

### Stormer @ StackStorm (BRCD)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA
Core member of the founding team that developed StackStorm, a platform for event driven automation (IFTTT for devops).  Core contributor to Mistral, a workflow as a service for OpenStack. StackStorm was acquired by Brocade on March 2016.

### Solution Architect / Software Developer @ Intel
Jan 2007 – Jan 2014
Designed and developed automation and management solutions for Intel's self-service private cloud on VMware and OpenStack. Contributor to Heat, a cloud orchestration service for OpenStack.

### Systems Programmer @ Intel
Jan 2000 – Jan 2007
Spanned multiple teams that developed and supported various data center management applications for device inventory, configuration, capacity, and performance management.


## Education
### Master in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/m4dcoder
- GitHub: https://github.com/m4dcoder

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Last updated: 2026-04-12