Kevin Chen
Software Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin 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
2 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), 42, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), 42 at Taipei European SchoolMaster of Computer Science, Computer Science, Master of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (18)
netlify9
animation9
gatsbyjs9
gatsby7
react7
safari5
python5
epub5
pdf4
calibre4
angular3
jekyll3
ministry3
chrome-extension2
firmware2
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
nich227/ning-k-chen
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
Ning Kevin Chen's Personal Website
Contributions:6 PRs, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
kevinchen
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