Summary
Muen Chen is a Software Development Engineer II with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud-native full-stack development, currently working on AWS in Seattle. He has a strong track record building self-service platforms and developer tooling—most notably implementing a dynamic API proxy and onboarding system that cut test-support time by 90% and end-to-end IaC with AWS CDK. Comfortable across front-end React and backend AWS services (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront), he also built internal code/configuration generators during an AWS internship to automate service proxies. An NYU computer science master’s student with prior experience at Alibaba delivering high-traffic consumer pages, Muen blends deep platform engineering with pragmatic product thinking. He favors solutions that automate repetitive work for engineers, enabling faster, safer service launches.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at New York University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 4.4, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 4.4 at Nanjing University