Summary
Gavin Chen is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems for high-scale financial services, currently modernizing fraud remediation at Capital One. He designs large, efficient distributed applications with deep expertise in AWS, Linux, object and block storage, and infrastructure-as-code, while advocating for multi-cloud ideas inspired by OpenStack. His background spans cloud platforms (Linode/Akamai), embedded IoT at a hospital innovation lab, and applied machine learning, giving him a rare blend of systems, networking, and edge-device experience. Comfortable across Python, Go, Rust, and low-level C/C++, he focuses on resilient integrations and processing thousands of critical events per day. Beyond production engineering, Gavin has led rocketry and storage teams, signaling a mix of hands-on technical leadership and atypical systems-level curiosity.
10 years of coding experience