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Alex Chen

Senior Systems Architect & Engineering Consultant

About

I interpret complex systems and build scalable infrastructure. With over 10 years of experience in distributed systems, I help companies move from MVP to global scale. Currently exploring the intersection of AI and edge computing.

Selected Work

2023 — Present

TechFlow

Principal Engineer

Leading the infrastructure migration to Kubernetes. Reduced AWS costs by 40% while improving uptime to 99.99%.

2020 — 2023

Vercel

Senior Engineer

Built the core edge-function delivery network. Architected the globally distributed cache invalidation system.

2018 — 2020

Stripe

Software Engineer

Developed internal payment reconciliation tools processing $1B+ annually. Mentored 3 junior engineers.

Projects

KubeScale

Go

Open-source autoscaler for K8s clusters based on custom metrics.

EdgeSync

Rust

Real-time state synchronization library for edge networks.

MetricFlow

TypeScript

High-cardinality time-series database proxy.

HyperLog

Go

Distributed logging system processing 1M+ events/sec.

RustCheck

Rust

Static analysis tool for catching memory leaks in FFI.

Technical Stack

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • Rust
  • Python

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • AWS / GCP
  • Docker

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • ClickHouse
  • DynamoDB