Alvin Wen
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvin Wen is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native applications using Java, JavaScript, React, GraphQL and Cassandra. He has shipped production systems at scale across tech leaders including Meta, WhatsApp and now Capital One, and brings hands-on expertise in Node.js, Apollo, and containerized deployments. His background spans both backend automation and frontend UX—having taught full-stack cohorts and led capstone reviews—so he blends mentorship with pragmatic engineering. Alvin also has a security-focused graduate education (MS in CyberSecurity from NYU Tandon), which informs a practical lens on reliability and secure design. Comfortable across GCP, Concourse and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, he excels at migrating and modernizing legacy services into cloud-native architectures. Outside work he’s an ice cream enthusiast, a small but telling sign of a practical engineer who appreciates simple pleasures.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree CyberSecurity, Master's degree CyberSecurity at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringComputer Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineer at Fullstack AcademyBachelor's degree Biology/Biological Sciences General, Bachelor's degree Biology/Biological Sciences General at University at BuffaloProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alvinwen424/SBLandingPage
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 40 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
alvinwen424/Brown-Hackathon
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:11 PRs, 16 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
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