James Chen

C001

Staff Engineer

San Francisco, USA

Summary

Full-stack engineer with 5+ years of experience in distributed systems and cloud architecture. Led migration of microservices serving 10M+ users at Google.

5.3

Years Experience

$185,000

Expected Salary

Hybrid

Work Mode

Skills

Languages: Java Go Python
Frameworks: gRPC React GraphQL
Databases: PostgreSQL MySQL Redis
Cloud: GCP AWS
Tools: Docker Kubernetes Kafka Terraform

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Google

2022-03 - present

34 months

Leading backend team for Google Cloud Platform services. Designed and implemented distributed caching layer reducing latency by 40%.

Java Go Kubernetes GCP PostgreSQL gRPC

Software Engineer

Meta

2020-06 - 2022-02

20 months

Built real-time notification system serving 500M+ users. Improved feed ranking algorithm increasing engagement by 15%.

Python Java React GraphQL MySQL Docker

Software Engineer

Uber

2019-07 - 2020-05

10 months

Developed microservices for driver matching system. Reduced matching latency from 2s to 200ms.

Go Python Kafka Redis PostgreSQL Docker

Projects

DistributedKV open-source

8 months

Distributed key-value store implementing Raft consensus. 2.5k GitHub stars.

Go gRPC Raft RocksDB GitHub

CloudCost Analyzer personal

4 months

Tool to analyze and optimize cloud spending across AWS/GCP accounts.

Python React AWS PostgreSQL GitHub

Education

Masters in Computer Science

Stanford University

Graduated 2019 • GPA: 3.8

Certifications

  • AWS Solutions Architect Professional
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect