# Alan Y Chen > Valon | Engineering | Ex-Microsoft Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alanychen Senior software engineer specializing in architecting and implementing resilient backend infrastructures, real time data streaming pipelines, and scalable database design. I’ve had the opportunity to work on both large scale distributed systems where horizontal scaling and liveness are top priorities as well as in a small rapidly moving team where prototyping and going to market faster than the competition are the main focus. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Valon Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Siro Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States - Experimenting with and Building AI features to enable automated sales coaching - Building a more robust data ingestion pipeline for millions of sales conversations - Setting engineering best practices, designing scalable infrastructure, improving on call practices ### Founding Engineer @ Hyperspace Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States https://hyperspace.xyz Multichain NFT Marketplace + Aggregator (Solana, Sui, Avax) - Built multiple data pipelines from the ground up that processes extremely burst-y traffic with hundreds of actions per second using a combination of messaging queues, redis caches, postgres databases, and serverless containers - Maintaining real time order book with low latency reads that scale for 1000s of concurrent users - Transaction ingestion and indexing for all Solana NFT marketplace and minting transactions - Scalable database design and large dataset query optimization - NFT Marketplace Smart Contract development NFT Minting Launchpad - NFT Minting contract upgrades - Built APIs for launchpad operations GCP Cloud Infrastructure (Pub/sub, task queues, managed containers, distributed cache, cloud storage etc.), Kafka, Postgres Solana, Sui, Avax, Anchor, Node (Typescript), Graphql, Python ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area Azure Active Directory Identity and Access Management - Maintained globally distributed Kubernetes cloud applications and infrastructure that receive >2,000 requests per second - Designed and built new APIs for customer facing features and configured a cloud testing infrastructure for said features - Eliminated customer impacting software regressions by creating load testing system imitating production traffic - Improved performance of open-source Microsoft authentication libraries by helping owners identity inefficiencies - Migrated multiple web services from an internal Microsoft platform to Kubernetes to satisfy JEDI requirements - Championed improved engineering practices: configuration based resource creation, high quality dashboards through detailed metric collection, monitors, detailed documentation, correlated logging over multiple services, and on-call drills for training team members ### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area Azure Portal Team - Will save hundreds of engineering hours with REST API client auto-generation tool that outputs typescript API files and definitions from Swagger specification files - Reduced the download size of auto-generated code by up to 99% - Communicated design choices with stakeholders by creating design document and holding design meetings - Made tool easy to use by packaging into NPM package and offering command line control ### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area Azure (Cloud Computing Services) Portal Team - Created feature to clone VM settings from existing VMs for Azure Portal’s most used customer experience - Designed a scalable software architecture for the feature backend that is generalizable to other product divisions - Tested and contributed to the design of new testing framework built off Selenium as a part of creating end-to-end tests - Collaborated extensively with Product Managers to design the user experience and usage data collection strategy ### Software Engineering Intern @ Rev.com Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Customer Experience Team - Updated developer API sandbox services so that endpoint behavior matched the most recent workflow - Wrote unit and integration tests for both frontend and backend components of the customer facing product - Engaged in Agile development practices including sprint planning and story point evaluation on a SCRUM board ### Software Engineering Intern @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area Platform Operations Team - Designed schema for PostGreSql Database for storing New Hire Ticket Audits - Designed and implemented Web Application for uploading, displaying, editing, and downloading New Hire Ticket Audits within deployed database - Utilized Spring MVC, Hibernate ORM, and Mockito - Integrated application with automated auditing system in order to automate ticket audit storage into database - Application and database enables analytics on NOCC (Network Operations Command Center) procedures and increases efficiency of Quality Assurance Analysts. ### Software Engineering Intern @ DIRECTV Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area Kubernetes Autoscaling System - Designed and implemented an autoscaling application running on Kubernetes that monitors the new DIRECTV streaming platform consisting of up to 129 microservices to determine when to scale up resources for a particular service under load - Set long term goals for autoscaling on Kubernetes and designed an autoscaling strategy to balance ideal system operations with cost of computing resources - Application will run on DIRECTV streaming's core platform and will affect the user experience >1 million customers at launch. - Worked with monitoring tools such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, testing toolkits such as Mock Server and Mockito, as well as the Spring Framework. - Worked in a SCRUM team utilizing agile development ### Software Engineering Intern @ Softech & Associates, Inc Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Orange County, California Area Web Application Development -Created search application that queried and handled responses from a remote database -Created a user friendly graphic interface for the application to display data -Gained extensive experience in web developing and understanding back-end data handling -Used HTML, CSS, Javascript (incl. JQuery), Java (JavaServer Pages), Apache Tomcat, and Kendo UI package. ### Software Engineering Intern @ i.am+ Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Los Angeles Application Development -Created Yelp and Notes application for new wearable technology -Use Android Studio, 3rd party APIs, and Voice Recognition technology for applications -Successfully presented and demonstrated application to Will.i.am Training AI Voice Recognition Software -Designed and conducted experiments to capture user intents to train AI model ### Software Engineering Intern @ Softech & Associates, Inc Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Costa Mesa Application creation: Print Solutions -Querying from a database -Programmatically creating/filling out PDF documents with information from database -Saving documents and uploading them to FileNet servers Application creation: Data Fix -Displaying Excel File within the GUI of a program -Saving edited Excel File in user-specified location -Allowing user to move back and forth between past versions of Excel Files ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Woodbridge High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alan-y-chen-24637a102 --- Source: https://flows.cv/alanychen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alanychen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20