Shitao Chen
Software Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShitao Chen is a Software Engineer II based in Seattle with a decade of engineering experience and six years building AI/ML-powered, large-scale systems at Amazon and AWS. He specializes in integrating LLMs into products like QuickSight, designing secure file and event-driven architectures, and optimizing real-time pipelines that support 100K+ daily events and users globally. Comfortable across the stack, he combines deep learning (BART, GPU), streaming frameworks (Kafka, MapReduce), and AWS services (S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SageMaker, ECS) to deliver production-grade features with enterprise security (JWT, KMS). Notably, his work has driven measurable product improvements—such as boosting Alexa News Q&A accuracy by 13%—while also enabling international expansion and seamless service internationalization. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and enjoys tackling the intersection of distributed systems and applied ML to create practical, customer-facing insights.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisGithub contributions (5)
Chanstk/smartMooc-Android
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Chanstk/FaceRecognition_MTCNN_FaceNet
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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