Kenneth Chan

Sept 2015-Present

Planned, executed, and led quarter long full-stack engineering projects deployed to production on time with hard deadlines

Some of those projects were featured in Dropbox's quarterly earnings calls
Worked with other engineering teams balancing short-term asks with long-term strategic alignment

Continually worked with product teams, influencing the muli-year roadmap by bargaining on engineering initiatives
Led and delegated many on-call production processes on entire company infrastructure and third party services, especially ones of high severity related to production data remediation/rollback or outages
Identify, document, optimize, and scale various systems inefficiencies
Vet and recommend appropriate open source software or vendor services to accelerate team tasks
Spearhead effective testing, peer code review, software design, code style culture

July 2014-August 2015

Aided in a team of three to build a wizard academy management mobile game built on custom HTML5 WebGL game engine
Used a combination of Cordova and WKWebView optimizations to run the game on iOS and Android
Used ReactJS for prototyping

April 2010-August 2013

Built, optimized, and scaled majority of the ad serving infrastructure involving OpenX(PHP), Java Server App, Hadoop, Thrift
24/7 On-call production support on system with 15,000 peak requests per second and up to 100 million daily impressions
Developed and improved many features assisting in $1M+ deals including delivery algorithms, targeting, data analytics

May 2009-Dec 2009

Managed a team of four to develop a cross-platform notetaking application that outlines and synchronizes notes to a webserver for sharing
Involved in the development of the Qt cross-platform application

July 2008-Oct 2009

Involved with extending the DisplayPort specification regarding switching between integrated and discrete graphics
Identifying and fixing time-critical kernel level software bugs.

Languages: Javascript (ES6/NodeJS), Ruby, Elixir/OTP, Python, Java, PHP, C/C++
Backend: NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Nginx, MySQL, Memcached, Hadoop
Frontend: React/Redux, React Native, HTML5, JQuery, Bootstrap
Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Elixir Phoenix
Dev Ops: AWS (EC2, RDS, IAM policy management, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront, DynamoDB), Docker, Heroku, Debian or Red Hat based Linux

May 2008