Summary
Vlad Chilom is a backend-focused Software Development Engineer II with 11 years of experience building scalable, reliable services for large consumer platforms. Currently working on Amazon Devices (Blink) as a backend cloud engineer, he previously led authentication and authorization efforts at Wayfair across a microservice ecosystem using .NET, PHP, Kubernetes and Docker. His background spans full-stack work early in his career and front-end internships, giving him end-to-end insight into system design, deployment, and user-facing flows. He combines production-grade backend engineering with practical experience in database-backed authentication platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. Based in Boston and grounded in a BS in Computer Science from Boston College, he brings both hands-on delivery and a history of mentoring technical students as a teaching assistant. Notably, his career shows a pattern of moving complex auth systems from monolith to resilient microservices in high-traffic environments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Boston College
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Brookings High School
English, Romanian