Sean Chen
Software Development Engineer III at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Chen is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, resilient backend systems, currently a Software Development Engineer III at AWS in Seattle. He leads small cross-functional teams focused on outage resiliency, hardware/network failure detection and mitigation, and drives operational improvements that have meaningfully reduced p99 latencies and improved availability during network events. Previously at Amazon he built high-throughput, multi-tenant ML training and image-processing platforms, led a 15K+ TPS diff pipeline, and delivered substantial cost and latency optimizations across services. An active open-source contributor to Bottlerocket—an OS built for hosting containers—he combines backend and DevOps expertise, updating critical dependencies and hardening build processes. Known for hiring and mentoring engineers, Sean blends hands-on coding with system design and operational stewardship, and has a strong academic foundation from RPI and Cornell.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering, 3.97, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering, 3.97 at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.94, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.94 at Cornell UniversityHunter College High School
Github Skills (8)
dependency-management10
container10
rust10
containerization10
operating-system9
go9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 383 reviews, 212 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the project by updating dependencies, specifically related to the `tough` and `actix-web` libraries. They also updated the `containerd` dependency. Moreover, the user was involved in refactoring code by changing and adding several imports. Further work was done updating ecs-agent, including a fix related to build tags.
containershostingoperating-systemrustlinux
cbgbt/twoliter
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
A build tool for customizing Bottlerocket
Contributions:111 pushes, 82 branches, 18 tags in 8 months
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