Poan Chen
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPoAn (Baron) Chen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack and cloud-integrated applications, currently contributing to Axon after a multi-year tenure on Azure IoT at Microsoft. He combines practical engineering—TDD, RESTful APIs, automated testing—with hands-on DevOps and cloud work across AWS and Azure, and has experience in life-sciences software from Illumina’s Clarity LIMS. A prolific technical communicator, he runs a developer help blog that attracts ~27k monthly visitors and has a strong presence answering technical questions on Quora, demonstrating a commitment to helping other developers get unstuck. PoAn’s background includes payment integrations, performance tuning with CDNs, and large-scale marketing automation, reflecting a blend of product-focused web work and enterprise-grade systems. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Victoria and is based in Redmond, Washington.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science - Computer Communications and Networks Option (Co-op Computer Science), Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science - Computer Communications and Networks Option (Co-op Computer Science) at University of VictoriaHigh School, High School at Claremont Secondary School
English, Chinese, Mandarin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (71)
command-line-interface10
azure-functions10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
arm10
rest-api10
openapi10
azure-sdk10
dotnet10
api10
sdk10
rest10
powershell10
azure10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
poanchen/code-for-blog
Nov 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
poanchen/poanchen.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jun 2022
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Contributions:1 release, 362 commits, 34 PRs in 5 years 9 months
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