Alex Chen

Senior Software Engineer

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

TechCorp · San Francisco, CA

2021 – Present

  • Designed and built scalable microservices platform serving 10M+ users, improving system reliability to 99.99%.
  • Led a team of 5 engineers to migrate legacy services to Kubernetes, reducing infrastructure costs by 40%.
  • Implemented distributed caching and optimized database queries, improving p95 latency by 60%.
  • Mentored junior engineers and conducted code reviews, establishing high engineering standards across the team.

Staff Engineer

DataFlow · New York, NY

2019 – 2021

  • Built real-time data processing pipeline using Kafka and Flink, processing 1TB+ of data daily.
  • Designed and implemented distributed system architecture for multi-tenant data platform, supporting 100+ customers.
  • Improved system observability with Prometheus and Grafana, reducing incident response time by 70%.

Software Engineer

StartupLabs · San Jose, CA

2016 – 2019

  • Developed full-stack features using React and Django, serving 500K+ active users.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipeline with Docker and Kubernetes, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes.
  • Collaborated with product team to ship 10+ features that increased user engagement by 35%.

Education

MS in Computer Science

Stanford University · Stanford, CA

2014 – 2016

BS in Computer Science

University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

2010 – 2014

Skills

Languages

  • Python
  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • Java

Frameworks

  • React
  • Django
  • Kubernetes

Practices

  • System Design
  • Microservices
  • CI/CD

Featured Projects

k8s-operator

Open-source Kubernetes operator for managing distributed applications. 5.2k+ stars, actively maintained by the community.

data-pipeline

Stream processing framework for real-time data pipelines built with Kafka and Flink. 3.8k+ stars, used by 100+ organizations.