Hejia Pan
Staff Backend Engineer at Coupang
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHejia Pan is a Staff Backend Engineer in Seattle with 12 years of experience building low-latency, cost-efficient distributed systems for large-scale retail and fulfillment platforms. At Amazon he led production deployments that improved video delivery and task routing across multi-geography systems, cutting time-to-first-frame by over 50% and reducing CXO cost per item by more than $0.14. Hejia blends deep systems and backend service design with frontend experience from building Redux/React frameworks, and has a strong operational mindset as an on-call engineer. Now at Coupang, he continues to iterate quickly—learn, hack, break, and stabilize—on mission-critical infrastructure. Trained originally in aerospace engineering, he brings a research-first approach to practical software problems, often finding optimization levers others overlook.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Science (BS) Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctorate Aerospace Engineering, Doctorate Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
python8
text-editor8
editor6
bootloader1
linux1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
panhejia/Dolly
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
andreikop/enki
Feb 2014 - Apr 2015
A text editor for programmers
Contributions:128 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
text-editoreditorpythonpyqt5
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