Howard Chen
Software Engineer at Instacart
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolHoward Chen is a software engineer with eight years of experience building production systems across leading cloud and consumer platforms, currently at Instacart after a Production Engineering stint at Meta and multiple roles at AWS. He brings deep hands-on experience in distributed systems and infrastructure features—ranging from EC2 Auto Scaling intern work to full production ownership—alongside a collaborative, team-oriented approach honed since graduating from the University of Toronto. Based in Vancouver, he enjoys working across diverse teams and continues to learn on the job, blending pragmatic engineering with operational rigor. A past crew-lead role and repeated internship-to-hire trajectory hint at strong mentorship and execution skills beyond code.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (117)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
EDToaster/edtoaster.github.io
Feb 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
gitbox-u/gitbox
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
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Contributions:132 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 months
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