Summary
Nick Cen is a senior software engineer with two decades of experience building high-concurrency backend systems and distributed infrastructure across e-commerce, O2O, EdTech and Web3. He has strong hands-on expertise in multi-cloud orchestration and dynamic scaling, having implemented cost-aware auto-scaling across AWS, GCP, Tencent and Alibaba Cloud to run ~200 instances and cut infrastructure spend by ~30%. As a former CTO and cofounder, he has led teams and designed microservices and nationwide platforms that supported millions of users and tens of thousands of IoT devices. At Astrox he applied that operational experience to blockchain and NFT pipelines, integrating Ethereum, Solana and Base into production services. A regular user of LLM tools to boost developer productivity, he blends deep systems engineering with a pragmatic, product-focused mindset. Based in Chaoyang District, Beijing, he pairs academic training from the Institute of Software (CAS) with a track record of turning complex distributed requirements into cost-efficient, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at China Academic of Science, Institute of Software
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese, Chinese