Joan Chen
Product Manager - AWS Commerce Platform - AWS Data Platform
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoan Chen is a product leader with 20+ years of experience designing and scaling data platforms, governance, and observability across AWS, GE Digital, and HPE. She specializes in zero-to-one product builds and large-scale migrations—having led a 1.4PB on-prem to AWS migration and unified catalogs for 20k+ datasets—while balancing enterprise security, compliance (SOX, HIPAA, NIST), and cost optimization. At AWS she drives portfolio strategy for ingestion, cataloging, access, auditing and metrics-as-code, influencing VP-level decisions and serving 300+ builders across billing, finance, security, and Responsible AI. Her background blends hands-on engineering contributions (notably to the aws-cdk project around AppConfig constructs) with program-level delivery, enabling air-gapped and sovereign-region operations. Known for aligning multi-org stakeholders and automating auditability, she translates complex technical risk into pragmatic product roadmaps that unlock analytics and AI value. She holds an MS from Stanford and a BS from UC Berkeley, pairing rigorous systems thinking with operational rigor.
3 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, BS, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, BerkeleyMS, Management Science and Engineering, MS, Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Indonesian
Github Skills (8)
infrastructure-as-code10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
typescripts10
aws-cdk10
typescript-types10
cloudwatch9
back-end-development9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
aws/aws-cdk
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 20 PRs, 33 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Joan primarily contributed to the development of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) constructs, specifically focusing on AWS AppConfig functionality. They added new features such as L2 constructs, refactored deployment and content properties, and supported features such as inline YAML and file imports. The user also worked on environment management, including the integration of monitors with CloudWatch alarms.
awscloud-development-kitcloud-infrastructureinfrastructure-as-codetypescript
chenjane-dev/aws-cdk
Aug 2023 - Mar 2024
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:52 pushes, 23 branches in 7 months
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