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Jiadong Chen

Cloud Architect/Senior Developer

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Biography

Jiadong Chen is one of 3,000 Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award winners internationally, recognized by Microsoft as one of the technology industry’s best and brightest eight years in a row, and is currently working as a Cloud Architect/Senior Developer, based in Melbourne, Australia.

Jiadong specializes in Microsoft Azure cloud, Azure AI, DevOps, cloud security, and .NET/C#, has a deep understanding of cloud architecture and is responsible for designing and implementing secure cloud solutions for clients. He is a highly motivated individual with a passion for technology and a commitment to excellence. He is a Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator, Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer, Microsoft Certified Azure Developer, Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer, Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator , Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award winner since October 2015, MVP Global Cloud Skills Challenge Winner and a member of the .NET Foundation.

Jiadong is also an excellent communicator and is able to effectively convey complex technical concepts in a way that is easy to understand. He has participated in the Unity Unite Conference twice as a speaker. He also attended the Microsoft Ignite the Tour Conference as a speaker in 2019.

Interests

  • Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Cyber Security
  • .NET/C#
  • Unity/XR Development
  • DevOps

Education

  • BEng in Electronic Information Science and Technology, 2012

    Dalian Maritime University

Accomplish­ments

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Earning the DevOps Engineer Expert certification demonstrates the ability to combine people, process, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives. DevOps professionals streamline delivery by optimizing practices, improving communications and collaboration, and creating automation.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Earning the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification demonstrates skills and knowledge to advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. Candidates have advanced experience and knowledge across IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance–this role should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution.

Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert

Earning Cybersecurity Architect Expert validates subject matter expertise in designing and evolving the cybersecurity strategy to protect an organization’s mission and business processes across all aspects of the enterprise architecture.

Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate

Earning Identity and Access Administrator Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and access management systems using Azure AD. Candidates provide a seamless experience and self-service management capabilities for all users. They are responsible for troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting of the identity and access environment.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

Earning Azure Security Engineer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to implement security controls and threat protection, manage identity and access, and protect data, applications, and networks in cloud and hybrid environments as part of end-to-end infrastructure.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Earning Azure Administrator Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to implement, manage, and monitor an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment. Candidates have a deep understanding of each implementing, managing, and monitoring identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment, plus provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources, when needed.

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design

Passing Exam AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design validates the skills and knowledge to advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions. Candidates have advanced experience and knowledge across IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance.

AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies

Passing Exam AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies validates the skills and knowledge to advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions. Candidates have advanced experience and knowledge across IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance.

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate

Earning the Azure AI Engineer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge required to build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework. Candidates understand the components that make up the Azure AI portfolio.

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900

Earners of the Azure AI Fundamentals certification have demonstrated foundational knowledge of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and related Microsoft Azure services.

Microsoft Certified Trainer 2021-2022

The Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Program which grants membership to professional trainers and learning consultants who demonstrate and maintain technical and instructional expertise on Microsoft technologies and who have complied with all requirements.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate AZ-204

Earning Azure Developer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to design, build, test, and maintain cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure. Candidates participate in all phases of cloud development from requirements definition and design, to development, deployment, and maintenance.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals AZ-900

Earners of the Azure Fundamentals certification have demonstrated foundational level knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional

The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award is given by Microsoft to "technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community." The awarded are people who "actively share their ... technical expertise with the different technology communities related directly, or indirectly to Microsoft".

Books

Game Development with Unity for .NET Developers

Understand what makes Unity the world’s most widely used real-time 3D development platform and explore its powerful features for …

Recent Posts

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I am privileged to host a Cloud Skills Challenge on Azure security with Microsoft! 🏆 𝐉𝐢𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞! …

I’m thrilled to share that I have been featured by Microsoft as a Skilling Champion!

Hey everyone! I’m thrilled to share that I have been featured by Microsoft as a Skilling Champion! It is an honor to be one of the top …

Making Your Azure Storage Account More Secure: 3

In the previous article, we introduced the second best practice, Ensure that ‘Enable key rotation reminders’ is enabled for each …

Making Your Azure Storage Account More Secure: 2

In the previous article, we introduced the first best practice, Ensure that ‘Enable Infrastructure Encryption’ for Each Storage Account …

Making Your Azure Storage Account More Secure: 1

Data protection is important because it helps to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access, modification, or destruction. For …

Recent & Upcoming Talks

The very best of Microsoft Build - Auckland

Microsoft Build has just finished and there were some amazing announcements. Our panel has selected some of their favourites and …

.NET Conf 2022 - Wellington

Building Real-Time 3D Cloud Applications with Azure, .NET, and Unity

Ignite After Party Auckland

This is a joint venture between the UG and the Microsoft MVP’s. We will show edited pieces of the videos ‘Hidden gems and …

Introduction to Unity, AR and AR Foundation

Jiadong Chen will introduce the Unity engine and Unity’s AR Foundation architecture. AR developers can use Unity to quickly and …

Projects

Realistic VR Interior Graphics Using Unity HDRP

This is a demo scene rendered by Unity HD Render Pipeline(HDRP). The VR part is Windows MR + OpenVR + Steam VR SDK.

Auckland City On The Watch AR

It is an interesting idea to let your watch not only ‘display’ the time but also a beautiful city.

Render Crowd of Animated Characters AR Scene

Use Unity’s AR Foundation to create 10,000 toy soldiers in the real world on an Old iPhone 7.

Animation Baker and Instancing for Animated Characters

Using GPU to implement large-amount animated characters rendering. The animation map for vertex shader to modify the vertex position of the mesh at runtime. Using GPU instancing to reduce draw calls.

Change Background in Live Streaming by Your Voice

Using #Azure, #Unity, and #Intel RealSense Camera to pixelate the character, and use voice to control background videos in live streaming. Check it out!

Real Time Speech Recognition Using Unity and Azure Cognitive Services

It is an interesting idea to combine #Azure cognitive service with #Unity to achieve real-time speech recognition. #AI check it out!

Unity & AR Core Depth API: Combine Pixel Style Art With The Real World

Using Google ARCore SDK & Unity To Build a depth API AR Application.

Unity ARFoundation HandDetection

This project shows how to enable the CoreML to work with AR Foundation in Unity.

Realistic Real Time Grass Rendering With Unity

Realistic Real Time Grass Rendering With Unity. Using the Geometry Shader to generate millions of grass on GPU.

Simulation of Deep Sea Fish School on Mobile

Render Crowd Of Animated Characters

Using GPU to implement large-amount animation characters rendering. The animation map for vertex shader to modify the vertex position of the mesh at runtime. Useing GPU instancing to reduce draw calls.

Unity Boids Behavior on GPGPU

Boids behavior calculation code is modified to utilize Microsoft Direct Compute resulting significant improvements in Performance.

Unity Special Effect With Depth

Using depth data to achieve scanning effects, x-ray effects, and shield energy field effects. Version Unity5.6 +