Kevin Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Aspira
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native backend systems and developer-friendly platforms. He has deep hands-on expertise in Go, GraphQL/Hasura, Postgres, and event-driven architectures, and has repeatedly improved performance and observability in production (e.g., a 93% performance boost via event sourcing and denormalization). Kevin has moved legacy domains to modern stacks, built ELT/ingestion pipelines with Terraform/ArgoCD/AWS, and shipped user-facing services across consumer marketplaces, VR, and mobility platforms. Now focused on an outdoor recreation platform, he blends pragmatic engineering with strong documentation and cross-team collaboration habits that accelerate onboarding and developer productivity. Outside of work he follows and experiments with tooling trends—Temporal, bufbuild, Holochain, and d2—reflecting a curiosity for distributed systems and designer-friendly infra.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Phillips Exeter AcademyBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Williams College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
graphql-api10
middleware10
trigger10
api10
json10
allocation10
envelope10
struct-tags10
dataloader10
mongodb10
webhooks10
subgraph10
programming-language10
rest-api10
haskell10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
TeslaGov/api-errors
May 2017 - May 2018
Error responses for your REST APIs
Contributions:10 releases, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 1 year
apirestrest-apierrorrest-apis
hanakoa/alpaca
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
Containerized Go µServices for authentication and authorization.
Contributions:91 commits, 8 PRs, 74 pushes in 8 months
golangauthorizationauthenticationcontainerizeddocker
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