# Albert Fan

> Software Engineer at Opera Event

Location: San Leandro, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/albertfan

I'm a backend/full-stack software engineer who loves to write MongoDB queries, which helped me achieve a 60% load time reduction by transforming a slow, data-heavy page into a responsive interface.

I have multiple years of working experience at a startup with a small engineering team, where I developed a strong sense of code ownership, fast-paced development, and an ability to quickly learn on the job. 

My career goal is to join and contribute to a mission-driven organization making a positive social impact. I would also like to work as a backend developer for education, health or finance tech. 

Achievements:

- Co-developed web application and deployed a scalable backend API within a 3-engineer team, directly resulting in a 20% increase in user engagement and a 15% rise in user spending.
- Ensured 90%+ data integrity across an 800k+ user base by designing and implementing a robust event tracking validation system, enabling reliable product analytics.
- Increased user retention by 30% by developing personalized features, engaging clients directly and ongoing maintenance.

Tech:

- Typescript, Javascript, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Docker, Postman, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Github

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Achievements:
- Co-developed web application and deployed a scalable backend API within a 3-engineer team, directly resulting in a 20% increase in user engagement and a 15% rise in user spending.
- Ensured 90%+ data integrity across an 800k+ user base by designing and implementing a robust event tracking validation system, enabling reliable product analytics.
- Increased user retention by 30% by developing personalized features, engaging clients directly and ongoing maintenance.

Tech:
- Typescript, Javascript, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Docker, Postman, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Github

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Opera Event
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | California, United States
- Co-developed and deployed a scalable backend API within a 3-engineer team, directly resulting in a 20% increase in user engagement and a 15% rise in user spending.

- Spearheaded the complete development lifecycle for personalized features, engaging clients directly from initial scoping and requirements gathering through to final design, deployment and ongoing maintenance, resulting in a 30% increase in user retention.

- Architected and implemented centralized JWT validation middleware, reducing security incidents related to unauthorized access by 100%, and managed JWT shared secrets via Kubernetes.

- Cultivated engineering talent by mentoring an intern engineer on software development best practices and team workflows, fostering their growth into a promoted Junior Engineer role.

### Junior Software Engineer @ Opera Event
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
- Reduced operational spending related to user data acquisition by 20% through proactive identification and resolution of costly external API call patterns.

- Ensured 90%+ data integrity across an 800k+ user base by designing and implementing a robust event tracking validation system, enabling reliable product analytics of user engagement.

- Improved Front-end file-type rendering accuracy by 100% by designing and implementing a Node.js API endpoint that listens for AWS S3 callback, to capture the file MIME type, and other metadata to the database.

- Collaborated closely with product and frontend partners within a compact team to deliver the backend infrastructure for a high-impact onboarding redesign, boosting success rates by 40%.

- Achieved a 60% load time by transforming a slow, data-heavy page into a responsive interface by integrating efficient pagination, filtering logic, and optimizing MongoDB aggregation pipelines.

### QA Engineer @ Opera Event
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
- Proactively identified bottlenecks in manual QA processes and implemented a Cypress-based automation solution, achieving a 40% decrease in frontend testing workload.

- Guaranteed build integrity, and UI/UX coherence by leveraging Node.js, Docker, and SSH tunnels to replicate production-like environments locally, enabling pre-merge testing, increasing successful promotion and code quality by 25%.

- Created and monitored key product features on Datadog, and alert the Engineering team when an abnormality occurs, and allowing Engineer to focus on creating new feature, increasing productivity by 20%.

- Created Slack alert on critical system features reducing downtime and potential system failures by 50%.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Opera Event
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | 7100 Stevenson Boulevard, Fremont, CA, 94538
- Improved the critical initial stage of the bug lifecycle, ensuring only verified and reproducible issues entered the development backlog, thereby conserving valuable engineering resources.


## Education
### Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology
42
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography
San Francisco State University
Jan 2007 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/albert-fan-b511ba152
- GitHub: https://github.com/albertfans

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Last updated: 2026-03-22