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Alex Chen
+1 (415) 555-0134|alex@chen.dev|San Francisco, CA|linkedin.com/in/alexchen|github.com/alexchen
SUMMARY

Backend engineer with 7 years building distributed systems at scale. Shipped the payments platform at Stripe (99.99% uptime, 12M txn/day). Looking for infrastructure work with real engineering rigor.

EXPERIENCE
Stripe
San Francisco, CA
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2022 — Present
  • Led redesign of core payment authorization path, reducing p99 latency from 340ms to 118ms across 12M daily transactions.

  • Owned the migration of 7 legacy services to a unified Rust service mesh. Team of 4.

  • Mentored 3 junior engineers through promotion to SWE II.

Datadog
New York, NY
Software Engineer II
Aug 2019 — May 2022
  • Built real-time log ingestion pipeline processing 2.1TB/hr peak. Go + Kafka.

  • Reduced infrastructure costs $340k/yr through a bespoke compression scheme for metric storage.

EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Statistics, GPA: 3.8
Sep 2015 — May 2019
SKILLS
Languages: Go, Rust, Python, TypeScript
Systems: Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, gRPC
Tools: Datadog, Terraform, GitHub Actions
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Alex Chen
+1 (415) 555-0134·alex@chen.dev·San Francisco, CA·linkedin.com/in/alexchen·github.com/alexchen
EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2022 — Present
Stripe
San Francisco, CA
  • Led redesign of core payment authorization path, reducing p99 latency from 340ms to 118ms across 12M daily transactions.

  • Owned the migration of 7 legacy services to a unified Rust service mesh. Team of 4.

  • Mentored 3 junior engineers through promotion to SWE II.

Software Engineer II
Aug 2019 — May 2022
Datadog
New York, NY
  • Built real-time log ingestion pipeline processing 2.1TB/hr peak. Go + Kafka.

  • Reduced infrastructure costs $340k/yr through a bespoke compression scheme for metric storage.

EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 2015 — May 2019
B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Statistics
GPA: 3.8
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Alex Chen
+1 (415) 555-0134|alex@chen.dev|San Francisco, CA|linkedin.com/in/alexchen|github.com/alexchen
SUMMARY

Backend engineer with 7 years building distributed systems at scale. Shipped the payments platform at Stripe (99.99% uptime, 12M txn/day). Looking for infrastructure work with real engineering rigor.

EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2022 — Present
Stripe
San Francisco, CA
  • Led redesign of core payment authorization path, reducing p99 latency from 340ms to 118ms across 12M daily transactions.

  • Owned the migration of 7 legacy services to a unified Rust service mesh. Team of 4.

  • Mentored 3 junior engineers through promotion to SWE II.

Software Engineer II
Aug 2019 — May 2022
Datadog
New York, NY
  • Built real-time log ingestion pipeline processing 2.1TB/hr peak. Go + Kafka.

  • Reduced infrastructure costs $340k/yr through a bespoke compression scheme for metric storage.

EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 2015 — May 2019
B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Statistics
GPA: 3.8
SKILLS
Languages: Go, Rust, Python, TypeScript
Systems: Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, gRPC
Tools: Datadog, Terraform, GitHub Actions
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