Kaiwen Sun
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKaiwen Sun is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 10 years of experience building and leading delivery of cloud-native developer and security tooling at AWS, currently working on the AWS Security Agent. He previously led feature development and technical direction for CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodeConnections, blending hands-on engineering with strategic product decisions. Kaiwen has a track record of shipping production systems across web, backend, and migration projects—from upgrading Python services and refactoring authentication at Whitepages to launching tenant-screening products. With a master's in computer science from UC San Diego and an exchange at Waterloo, he combines rigorous academic training with practical execution in large-scale distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic tech lead who moves fast on complex, security-sensitive infrastructure while keeping product impact front and center.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing UniversityHigh School, High School at Jinan Foreign Language SchoolNon-degree exchange Computer Science, Non-degree exchange Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
169reputation
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Github Skills (69)
algorithm10
aws-codedeploy10
java10
algorithms10
wtforms10
data-structures10
validation9
aws9
ticker9
rendering8
python8
options-trading8
relation8
forms8
agent8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kaiwensun/resume
May 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
kaiwensun/ChessPy
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
A Python Flask Project of Chinese Chess
Contributions:94 PRs, 116 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
chinesepythonflaskpython-flaskpython3
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