Cliff Chung
Principal Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCliff Chung is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with over a decade of experience building and operating large-scale systems that serve millions of users. At Amazon and AWS he’s architected high-throughput services—from a digital order pipeline processing tens of millions of orders daily to an XMPP chat system supporting over a million concurrent users—and launched features like live WorkSpaces volume resizing and AD domain controller support. He blends firmware and application work (Echo Loop, Halo Band) with backend architecture, demonstrating rare full-stack fluency across device, cloud, and monitoring domains. A former startup CTO, Cliff pairs product-minded engineering with hands-on execution, having built customer-facing REST services and Django front ends. His background in computer engineering and early FPGA hardware work give him a systems-level perspective that informs robust, scalable designs.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (16)
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iot10
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connectivity10
lte10
collaboration9
java9
openfire9
zephyr9
freertos9
jabber9
openthread9
internet-of-things8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cliffchung/cliffs-envSetup
Jan 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:47 pushes in 9 years
cliffchung/very-slow-movie-player
Dec 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:9 pushes in 3 months
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