Kevin Chen
Software Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorKevin Chen is a software engineer with 8 years of hands‑on experience currently building Kindle search and discovery features at Amazon in Seattle. He specializes in modern mobile UI migrations to Jetpack Compose, accessibility-forward animations, and backend cloud migrations to AWS with GraphQL and containerized services. Kevin has driven measurable product impact—reducing code size by 45% and increasing filter usage by over 500k monthly—and has built LLM-powered natural language search using AWS Bedrock and RAG techniques. A two-time hackathon winner, he blends systems-level thinking from his CS research and course-assistant background with product-focused execution across mobile, backend, and ML tooling.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
netlify9
animation9
gatsbyjs9
python5
safari5
epub5
calibre3
jekyll3
firmware3
ministry3
angular3
chromeos2
newman1
chrome-extension1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nich227/ncm-utd
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
The website for the Newman Catholic Ministry.
Contributions:15 PRs, 227 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
newmanministrycatholicjekyllangular
ShayanJavadi/animation-utd
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
repository for animation guild's website. Gatsby.js + Netlify
Contributions:74 commits, 67 pushes in 8 months
animationgatsbyjsnetlify
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