Summary
Zhendong Chen is an experienced software integration engineer with a two-decade foundation in enterprise Java and a decade of focused cloud-native and DevOps practice. He has led global compliance and large-scale migrations—moving legacy VMs to Kubernetes, serverless, and EKS/Pulumi/Terraform-driven IaC—while designing enterprise security policies and cross-account IAM controls for multi-account AWS environments. At organizations like 3M and Commonwealth Informatics he built auto-scaling NLP and microservice platforms handling millions of requests per hour and implemented automated ML training pipelines on SageMaker and Step Functions. Known as a hands-on technical leader and coach, he blends scrum leadership with deep operational judgment around throughput, cost, logging, and maintainability. Based in Rockville, MD and AWS DevOps certified, he’s equally comfortable authoring CDK/Terraform frameworks as he is troubleshooting production-scale distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Materials Science & Structure Engineer, Master's degree Materials Science & Structure Engineer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Master Computer Sciense, Master Computer Sciense at University of Arkansas at Little Rock
English, Chinese