Erik chen
Sr. DevOps Engineer at Backstop Solutions Group
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Chen is a Sr. DevOps Engineer based in Chicago with 12 years of experience designing and automating cloud-native solutions, primarily on AWS. He has progressed through hands-on DevOps roles at Backstop Solutions Group and earlier built cloud migrations, real-time analytics pipelines, and ML deployment interfaces as a consultant. Erik pairs strong architecture and automation skills with practical operational improvements—examples include dramatically reducing data processing turnaround and virtualizing desktop fleets to cut on-site maintenance. He’s contributed backend fixes and API cleanup to the Chromium project, demonstrating attention to lifecycle/state management even in large open-source codebases. Comfortable working autonomously or as part of engineering teams, he focuses on delivering reliable, auditable infrastructure that scales.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (9)
debug10
chromium10
window-management10
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
front-end-development9
ui-design9
uid9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/chromium
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Erik focused on fixing bugs related to state transitions and animations in the `GlicWindowController` component, likely related to user interface elements within the Chromium project. Their contributions included addressing bugs in window management and cleanup. The user refactored the code to improve readability, including public API cleanup, and simplification of the internal state management, demonstrating an understanding of the component lifecycle.
chromiumgithub-mirrorchrome
WICG/performance-memory
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 13 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 months
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