Bater Chen
Backend Team Lead at Frontier.cool
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolBater Chen is a backend team lead and senior full-stack engineer with 12+ years building scalable web platforms across ecommerce, SaaS, and enterprise government systems. He specializes in backend architecture (C#/.NET, Python, Ruby) and DevOps, having refactored large legacy codebases, slashed API latency from seconds to milliseconds, and automated deployments to cut release time by 83%. A pragmatic leader, he’s coached teams, enforced ISO 27001-aligned security practices, and raised unit test coverage from single digits to 500+ tests while introducing threat modeling into the release process. He pairs a strong Rails UX sensibility with performance-first engineering—evident in speeding tests from 70 to 8 minutes and optimizing email and monitoring systems for production. Based in New Taipei, Taiwan, Bater blends hands-on coding with product and PM experience, often stepping into cross-functional roles to unblock delivery and improve developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
National Chung Cheng UniversityInstitute for Information Industry
Stackoverflow
61reputation
2kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (32)
pluralsight9
asp-net-mvc8
rails8
ruby8
mvc7
angularjs7
ruby-on-rails7
html7
activerecord6
jekyll6
nodejs6
sinatra6
blockchain6
docker6
ckeditor6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bater/blog
Jun 2017 - May 2022
Blog about web technology
Contributions:50 commits, 4 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 11 months
jekyll
bater/shop
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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