Jessica Chen
Category Manager, Global Procurement Org
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Chen is a procurement and supply chain leader with 9 years of experience orchestrating strategic sourcing for hardware and mechanical commodities across Microsoft, Facebook, and now Amazon’s Global Procurement Org. She combines deep technical grounding in mechanical engineering and manufacturing with advanced supply-chain analytics from an MS in Industrial & Systems Engineering, enabling early-stage design-for-supply decisions that drive cost avoidance and supplier resilience. At Facebook she led sourcing for AR glasses and introduced post-consumer recycled materials into NPD, reflecting a practical commitment to sustainability alongside performance. Her background includes hands-on NPI and supplier development at Philips and cross-functional programs that improved yield, supplier performance, and component roadmaps. Unusually for a procurement manager, she also contributes to open-source DevOps projects related to AWS container tooling, demonstrating fluency in cloud-native developer workflows and backend integrations. Based in Kirkland, WA, she blends engineering rigor with strategic supplier relationship building to translate complex hardware requirements into reliable, cost-effective supply strategies.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Industrial and System Engineering, Global Trade, Transportation & Logistics, Master of Science, Industrial and System Engineering, Global Trade, Transportation & Logistics at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
aws-cloudformation10
docker10
go10
aws10
go-testing10
amazon-ecs10
dockers10
testing10
devops9
caching8
cicd8
api-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ecs-cli
Jun 2016 - Oct 2017
The Amazon ECS CLI enables users to run their applications on ECS/Fargate using the Docker Compose file format, quickly provision resources, push/pull images in ECR, and monitor running applications on ECS/Fargate.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 56 commits, 82 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jessica contributed significantly to the back-end infrastructure of the project. They focused on improving the core functionality, specifically validating cluster names before running CloudFormation stacks. The user also improved code quality by updating the AMI ids to Amazon ECS-Optimized Amazon Linux AMIs. They also worked on fixing the ELB/ALB and made validations in code.
monitorpushecrcomposeecs-fargate
awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Automatically gets credentials for Amazon ECR on docker push/docker pull
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 21 days
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and reusability of the Amazon ECR credential helper. They implemented features allowing for wider use cases, including support for ECS-CLI. Furthermore, the user improved the codebase through bug fixes, such as creating the directory when it does not exist. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of the project's architecture and its integration with AWS services.
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