Summary
Sokunna Chen is a Senior Software Architect in Greater Boston with over a decade designing and delivering life-critical medical systems at Philips. He specializes in cloud-native, multi-tenant platforms and real-time data streaming—having architected hybrid Kubernetes/Cloud Foundry deployments, Protocol Buffers + Kafka pipelines, and WebSocket-based on-premises-to-cloud connectors. A hands-on leader and coach, he drives architecture, CI/CD, testing automation, and migration strategies while guiding multiple agile teams to production-quality features like identity management, auditing, and multi-tenancy. His background spans deep systems work in C#/.NET Core, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and FHIR, combined with practical experience implementing GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipelines. Unusually for an architect, he still prototypes proof-of-concepts and implements core microservices himself, bridging strategy and implementation to accelerate product delivery.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Boston University