Alan Gan
Software Engineer II at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Gan is a Software Engineer II with 13 years of experience, currently improving cache efficiency and streaming infrastructure for CloudFront's Media & Entertainment team at Amazon in the Greater Seattle area. He blends a passion for invention and languages with solid distributed systems and web development skills, regularly tackling performance and scalability challenges in CDN environments. His background includes hands-on work at AWS Elemental and a research-oriented internship at SRI International where he built sensor drivers and a scriptable OpenCV/Tkinter GUI for biometric data collection. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on making large-scale streaming systems more efficient and reliable while continuing to explore new domains and tooling. Collected experience from academia at UIUC and industry positions gives him a practical curiosity for system design and automation that informs his production work.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese, German, Arabic
Github Skills (48)
electron10
typescript10
editor9
microsoft9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
visual-studio9
vscode9
cli6
command-line6
perl6
documentation5
curl5
isbn5
parsec5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alanrgan/alanrgan.github.io
Aug 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:69 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
alanrgan/lattice
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes in 5 days
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