Alex Chen

Staff Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-stack engineer specializing in distributed systems and API design. Open-source contributor and conference speaker. Passionate about developer experience and infrastructure reliability.

Trust: Medium (3 attestations)5 career highlights 8 skills

Career Highlights

accomplishment3/20/2026Verified

Architected and shipped TechBridge's new API gateway serving 2M requests/day

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accomplishment10/15/2025Verified

Led migration from monolith to microservices, reducing deploy time from 45min to 3min

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milestone1/8/2026Unverified

Gave talk at ReactConf on building resilient data layers

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leadership12/1/2025Unverified

Mentored 4 engineers through promotion cycles

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accomplishment2/10/2026Verified

Open-sourced internal rate-limiting library — 500+ GitHub stars in first month

TypeScriptReactNode.js

Skills

System Designadvanced

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Dockeradvanced

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Node.jsadvanced

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API Designadvanced

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AWSadvanced

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Reactadvanced

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TypeScriptadvanced

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PostgreSQLadvanced

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