Andrew Chen
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Chen is a software engineering manager with over a decade of experience building and scaling enterprise platforms, currently leading engineering at Meta after a long tenure managing distributed security services at AWS. He has deep expertise in designing and operating mission-critical, globally distributed systems—most recently owning AWS Firewall Manager across 36 regions—and a strong track record of growing and hiring high-performing teams in Seattle. Past roles include architecting large Java transformations and DevOps practices that delivered multi-million dollar revenue and dramatic performance improvements for automotive and finance clients. He combines hands-on engineering roots (early career technical lead at IBM) with strategic product and pre-sales influence, having driven product expansions into multiple international markets. Notably, he’s comfortable single-threading ownership of complex services while also mentoring teams to adopt best practices that boost velocity and reduce defects. Based in Seattle with advanced degrees in computer science, he blends production-grade cloud expertise with a pragmatic focus on operational reliability and customer impact.
5 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyUNSW Sydney
Chinese, English
Github Skills (17)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes-deployment10
aws10
cli10
boto9
hybrid-cloud9
kubernetes-cluster8
kubernetes8
hybrid7
opensearch7
vmware7
k8s7
docker7
kubernetes-pods3
helm2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
achen1210/eks-hybrid
Jan 2025 - Apr 2026
Use your on-premises and edge infrastructure as nodes in EKS clusters with EKS Hybrid Nodes
Contributions:233 pushes, 59 branches in 1 year 3 months
achen1210/amazon-eks-user-guide
Feb 2025 - Oct 2025
The open source version of the Amazon EKS user guide. You can submit feedback & requests for changes by submitting issues in this repo or by making proposed changes & submitting a pull request.
Contributions:22 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
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