AI-Focused Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience building secure, scalable, data-intensive web applications and distributed systems using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, SQL, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Strong expertise across frontend architecture, backend APIs, microservices, real-time processing, database optimization, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, application security, and production observability. Proven track record of delivering high-performance, maintainable software solutions, achieving 40% faster deployments, 30% fewer critical defects, and 30% faster application load times.

Scott Chen

AI-Focused Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience building secure, scalable, data-intensive web applications and distributed systems using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, SQL, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Strong expertise across frontend architecture, backend APIs, microservices, real-time processing, database optimization, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, application security, and production observability. Proven track record of delivering high-performance, maintainable software solutions, achieving 40% faster deployments, 30% fewer critical defects, and 30% faster application load times.

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AI-Focused Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience building secure, scalable, data-intensive web applications and distributed systems using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, SQL, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Strong expertise across frontend architecture, backend APIs, microservices, real-time processing, database optimization, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, application security, and production observability. Proven track record of delivering high-performance, maintainable software solutions, achieving 40% faster deployments, 30% fewer critical defects, and 30% faster application load times.

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Senior Backend Engineer | AI Applications at Deputy Remote
August 1, 2023 - Present
Architected React, TypeScript, and Node.js user workflows including analytics dashboards, data grids, filters, and operational tools, reducing load time by 40% using virtualization, state optimization, smart caching, and targeted profiling. Built secure agentic AI workflows with Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Guardrails, ECS, and MCP, including LLM routing, tool execution, validation, and human approval controls. Implemented AI auto-scheduling across availability, skills, labor rules, wage budgets, and working-hour limits to generate compliant workforce schedules. Developed OAuth 2.0/token-authenticated REST/JSON workforce APIs handling up to 500 records per response across employees, schedules, timesheets, payroll, and operational data. Created event-driven integrations for 16 webhook event categories and 3 delivery methods (HTTP/HTTPS, AWS SQS, Slack) with HMAC-SHA256 verification. Optimized schedule synchronization using a 48-hour roster window (36 hours future, 12 hours history).
Full Stack Engineer at Piction
September 1, 2019 - July 1, 2023
Engineered React/TypeScript frontend workflows with Node.js backend APIs for digital asset upload, metadata editing, AI-enriched search, and rights management; supported 20+ media formats using optimized rendering, caching, and scalable service architecture. Built asset workflows across Digitize, Manage, Discover, and Distribute lifecycle stages (uploads, metadata editing, rights management, collaboration, publishing). Developed media-processing pipelines for 20+ formats across images/videos/audio/documents, including thumbnails, derivatives, watermarking, and scheduled ingestion. Implemented integrations with 14 external platforms (5 collection systems, 6 CMS platforms, 3 enterprise tools) for automated synchronization. Improved asset discovery using metadata filtering, thesaurus search, and related-image search combined with AI-generated metadata indexing.
Full Stack Engineer at Piction Canberra, ACT, AU
September 1, 2019 - July 1, 2023
Engineered React and TypeScript frontend workflows with Node.js backend APIs for digital asset upload, metadata editing, AI-enriched search, and rights management. Supported 20+ media formats using optimized rendering, caching strategies, and scalable service architecture. Built asset workflows across four lifecycle stages (Digitize, Manage, Discover, Distribute) covering uploads, metadata editing, rights management, collaboration, and publishing. Developed backend media-processing pipelines for 20+ file formats across images, videos, audio, and documents including thumbnails, derivatives, watermarking, and scheduled ingestion. Integrated with 14 external platforms (collection systems, CMS platforms, and enterprise tools) to automate data synchronization. Enhanced asset discovery using metadata filtering, thesaurus search, and related-image search combined with AI-generated metadata indexing.
Software Engineer at Safee E Logbook
March 1, 2017 - July 1, 2019
Built customer-facing web application features supporting communication and business workflows using JavaScript-based frontend technologies and backend services. Implemented API integrations connecting user-facing workflows with internal systems and consolidated data required by those features. Improved maintainability by refactoring reusable application modules and reducing tightly coupled logic across frequently modified parts of the platform.
Software Engineer at Huum Bioreclamation
August 1, 2016 - March 1, 2017
Contributed to applications requiring reliable data handling, maintainable logic, and clear interfaces for technical and operational users. Built and maintained application components while working with structured data and relational database workflows across development and testing environments.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at University of Newcastle
September 1, 2012 - May 1, 2016
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at University of Newcastle
September 1, 2012 - May 1, 2016

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