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I'm Kevin Chen, a senior backend and platform engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve spent more than a decade delivering large-scale services and data platforms on AWS and Azure, building distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven pipelines with Node.js, Python, Java, and Go. I focus on production rigor—observability, SLOs, and reliability—and I lead with architectural vision and hands-on execution. My core strengths include service design and ownership, high-throughput APIs, scalable storage and caching, streaming and messaging, CI/CD and IaC, security and compliance, and cross-team leadership.…I'm Kevin Chen, a senior backend and platform engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve spent more than a decade delivering large-scale services and data platforms on AWS and Azure, building distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven pipelines with Node.js, Python, Java, and Go. I focus on production rigor—observability, SLOs, and reliability—and I lead with architectural vision and hands-on execution. My core strengths include service design and ownership, high-throughput APIs, scalable storage and caching, streaming and messaging, CI/CD and IaC, security and compliance, and cross-team leadership.

Kevin Chen

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I'm Kevin Chen, a senior backend and platform engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve spent more than a decade delivering large-scale services and data platforms on AWS and Azure, building distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven pipelines with Node.js, Python, Java, and Go. I focus on production rigor—observability, SLOs, and reliability—and I lead with architectural vision and hands-on execution. My core strengths include service design and ownership, high-throughput APIs, scalable storage and caching, streaming and messaging, CI/CD and IaC, security and compliance, and cross-team leadership.…I'm Kevin Chen, a senior backend and platform engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve spent more than a decade delivering large-scale services and data platforms on AWS and Azure, building distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven pipelines with Node.js, Python, Java, and Go. I focus on production rigor—observability, SLOs, and reliability—and I lead with architectural vision and hands-on execution. My core strengths include service design and ownership, high-throughput APIs, scalable storage and caching, streaming and messaging, CI/CD and IaC, security and compliance, and cross-team leadership.

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I’m Kevin Chen, a senior backend and platform engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve spent more than a decade delivering large-scale services and data platforms on AWS and Azure, building distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven pipelines with Node.js, Python, Java, and Go.

I focus on production rigor—observability, SLOs, and reliability—and I lead with architectural vision and hands-on execution. My core strengths include service design and ownership, high-throughput APIs, scalable storage and caching, streaming and messaging, CI/CD and IaC, security and compliance, and cross-team leadership.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Amazon (AWS Translate - Backend Platform)

June 1, 2020 - June 1, 2020

Led the backend platform for AWS Translate, building end-to-end services to normalize multilingual content, using Node.js-based microservices and serverless components. Implemented observability, SLOs, reliability improvements, and secure CI/CD pipelines; supported scalable storage, caching, and event-driven ingestion across teams.

Software Development Engineer II at Amazon (Alexa Speech - ASR Platform)

August 1, 2019 - August 1, 2019

Established a real-time ASR performance-tracking system across model versions, built telemetry pipelines with Kinesis/Kafka, durable storage with DynamoDB and OpenSearch, and dashboards/alerts for regression detection; contributed to scale and reliability.

Software Engineer at Suning Commerce R&D Center USA

September 1, 2016 - September 1, 2016

Built a scalable contextual search platform for e-commerce: data ingestion and ranking combining textual matching with behavioral signals; implemented batch processing using Python, Hive, and Spark; delivered search capabilities at web scale.