Andy Shen
Senior Software Engineer at LEAP Dev
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Shen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with 15 years of experience building backend services and deploying cloud-native applications, particularly on AWS. He blends .NET Core, Node.js and Java expertise with front-end skills in HTML, JavaScript and Bootstrap, and has hands-on experience across MVC, JSP/JSF and WebForms. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect, he has practical DevOps experience—contributing to notable open-source projects like LocalStack by adding Lambda runtime and container networking support, and hardening the swagger-parser to improve API validation reliability. Andy's career spans product engineering roles and customer-facing B2B work, giving him a pragmatic focus on robustness, performance and stakeholder-driven outcomes. He recently graduated from UTS with a strong academic record and brings a track record of shipping reliable, production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Performance Education GroupAdvanced Diploma of Translating, English Translation, Language Interpretation and Translation, Advanced Diploma of Translating, English Translation, Language Interpretation and Translation at Abbey CollegeBachelor's degree, Information Technology, GPA 3.7/4, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, GPA 3.7/4 at University of Technology Sydney
English, chinese(cantonese & mandarin)
Github Skills (22)
parserator10
javascript10
docker10
parser10
localstack10
validations10
python10
validation10
dockers10
lambdas10
aws10
lambda10
nodejs10
openapi10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
localstack/localstack
May 2018 - Apr 2019
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 24 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andy contributed to the local AWS cloud stack by adding support for new Lambda runtime versions (Node.js 8.10). They also implemented features related to container networking for Lambda functions, allowing users to specify a network for their Lambda code. Further, they added support for running scripts from an init.d style directory during service startup and corrected event invocation for Kinesis streams.
serverless-cloudpythonaws-cloudtestingserverless
APIDevTools/swagger-parser
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0 parser/validator
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Andy focused on improving the robustness of the swagger-parser by addressing specific API validation issues. Their commits involved identifying and skipping problematic APIs that caused validation errors or hung during processing. They also added a list of known errors, focusing on ignoring specific issues related to OpenAPI versions and data schema inconsistencies to prevent the parser from failing on certain valid API specifications. These changes helped improve the reliability and prevent errors within the parser.
validationresolverjavascriptswagger-2validator
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