Emmanuel Tan
About Emmanuel Tan
Emmanuel Tan is a Senior Unix System Administrator at National Instruments in Penang, Malaysia, with extensive experience in system management, virtualization, and DevOps.
Emmanuel Tan's Current Role at National Instruments
Emmanuel Tan is presently serving as a Senior Unix System Administrator at National Instruments in Penang, Malaysia. In his current role, he is responsible for managing Unix systems, implementing load balancing solutions, and ensuring system health and performance.
Emmanuel Tan's Career at National Instruments
Emmanuel Tan has built a long-standing career at National Instruments. He joined the company in 2012 as an Enterprise Desktop Systems Specialist II and worked in this role for three years. Subsequently, he transitioned to the role of Unix System Administrator from 2015 until 2019. Since then, he has been serving as Senior Unix System Administrator.
Emmanuel Tan's Previous Work Experience
Before joining National Instruments, Emmanuel Tan held various IT roles in different organizations. From 2011 to 2012, he was an IT Executive at Tenby International School. Between 2007 and 2010, he worked as an Application Analyst at Spansion LLC. Prior to that, he served as a Customer Engineer at Mesiniaga @ Intel Technology Sdn Bhd from 2005 to 2007 and as a Credit Admin at DELL Computer Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd from 2004 to 2005.
Emmanuel Tan's Education Background
Emmanuel Tan completed his studies at Informatics College, where he studied Computer Studies (ADCS), E-Commerce and Multimedia, and Science, earning a Diploma in 2002. His education has provided a solid foundation for his IT career, contributing to his expertise in various technical areas.
Technical Expertise and Projects by Emmanuel Tan
Emmanuel Tan has extensive technical expertise encompassing a range of IT solutions and tools. He successfully engineered a load balancer replacement from Citrix Netscaler to open-source Haproxy and migrated Load Balanced VIP to Haproxy. He also replaced Spacewalk with Oracle Linux Manager and has active experience with RKE Kubernetes Container with Rancher cluster management. His skill set includes proficiency in Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline, Infrastructure as Code with Cloud-Init and Packer, and virtualization platforms like OVM, HyperV, and VMWare. Additionally, he is experienced in managing the Exadata Platform for DataWarehouse and performing system performance monitoring using tools such as Nagios, Grafana, Graphite, InfluxDB, and Prometheus.