Su Chen
Software Engineer at Amazon
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSu Chen is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of experience designing and operating high-throughput, cloud-native backend systems for consumer devices and games. Currently at Amazon, Su has led efforts to migrate ad serving and reporting to native AWS at billion-request scale while mentoring junior engineers and driving sprint planning. Past roles include building robust ETL and Airflow pipelines at Nexon and optimizing game backend performance and reliability at Gaea Mobile and Kabam. An active open-source contributor, Su implemented MQTT proxy support and Kafka integration for the Cloud Native Easegress traffic orchestration project, showing a knack for protocol work and performance tuning. Academically grounded with an MS in Computer Science and a history of GPU-accelerated research, Su combines systems-level rigor with hands-on delivery and a hacker’s curiosity for practical optimizations.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, 75, Bachelor in Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, 75 at Beijing University of Post and TelecommunicationsMaster in Science, Computer Science, 3.9, Master in Science, Computer Science, 3.9 at Arkansas State University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
mqtt10
kafka10
proxy-server10
go10
back-end-development10
mqttnet10
networking9
concurrency9
testing9
distributed-systems9
api-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
easegress-io/easegress
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 653 reviews, 87 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Su significantly contributed to the MQTT proxy functionality within the Easegress project, implementing features for MQTT support. This included adding core components like Kafka producer integration, session management, authentication, and topic mapping. The user also optimized performance, addressed bugs, and expanded testing for improved reliability.
api-gatewaysidecarproxy-serverreverse-proxytraffic
suchen-sci/easegress
Aug 2022 - Apr 2025
A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system
Contributions:138 pushes, 117 branches in 2 years 8 months
orchestrationcloudkubernetestrafficcloudnative
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