Ricky Chen
Application Engineer
Springfield Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Chen is an application engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native services and data-driven applications, currently working at Vanguard while completing a BS in Computer Science at Drexel University. He has practical expertise in AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway), Okta SSO integrations, and real-time ETL patterns, having led a migration from S3 to DynamoDB and presented the design to senior stakeholders. Comfortable across Python, C#, and Unity, Ricky has bridged research and production—earlier contributing to a brain–computer interface project that combined TensorFlow and Unity for assistive technology. He’s skilled at translating operational needs into resilient features, such as region-aware scheduling and daylight-savings handling for capacity planning tools. Collaborative by practice, he works in agile teams, mentors peers on coding standards, and coordinates with international engineers to support satellite systems. Based in Springfield Township, PA, he brings a pragmatic blend of software engineering, cloud architecture, and user-focused problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Drexel UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Springfield High School
Github Skills (13)
android-studio8
banking8
kotlin6
android5
emacs-lisp3
gnu3
emacs3
emacs-lsp2
spacemacs2
melpa2
elisp2
ripgrep1
magit1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ImNotMee/BigBoiBank
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
A Mobile Banking app built using Android Studio
Contributions:36 commits in 22 days
android-studioandroidkotlinbankingmobile-banking
hackermanone/hackermanone.github.io
May 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 8 months
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