# Alvin C. > Fullstack Developer | GCP Certified Cloud Engineer | Typescript | NodeJS | React Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alvinc San Francisco based Software Engineer with 2 years of working experience building fullstack application leveraging cloud computation. GCP Certified Cloud Engineer and experience working with Typescript, Node.js, React, Redux, SQL, No-sql, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker and much more. ## Work Experience ### Software Development Engineer II @ Cue Health Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ● Designed and Built an intuitive image gallery display that handles 30 Petabyte of manufacturing images, saving the manufacturing team up to 100 hours a week not having to manually view them in Google Storage Bucket. ● Improved code consistency and readability by refactoring 80% back-end code base to follow proper Dependency Injection Principle. Leveraged Google Secret Manager and removed hard coded credentials that were previously visible in source control. ● Formed a single source truth for project design and documentation by initiating the use of Figma & Lucidcharts. This increases offshore team members productivity and reduce the need for video calls. ● Worked on the data team as a full stack developer. Improved end users productivity ranging from 10% - 40% by streamlining data retrieval and processing. Collaborated with offshore team members across 4 different time zones to deliver internal tool features on time. ### Software Development Engineer I @ Cue Health Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Diego, California, United States ● Saved the company $30,000 annually by replacing a data pipeline system in Confluent & Apache Kafka to Google PubSub. This leads to improvement in security due to most services being part of the same GCP VPC network. ● Integrated an Alerting and Monitoring system that helps on call developers to respond up to approximately 20 minutes faster using Datadog & Pagerduty. Accomplished by using PubSub to push application logs from Kubernetes containers to Datadog. Deployed health check monitor boards that alerts Pagerduty when systems are below or above threshold. ● Mentored an intern into successfully building a QA tool in under 2 months. This allows Quality and QA team to generate fake test kit data for testing purposes in the staging environment that improves faster QA session by 15%. ● Developed internal and analytical tools for end users using REST API(NestJs), SQL(Google Big Query) and NoSQL(MongoDB) on the backend. Web rendering using React and state management using Redux. ### Software Engineer @ Happied Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Washington DC-Baltimore Area • Building Internal tools using a monolithic Ruby on Rails application for Sales and VEP team to improve work efficiency through seamless UI & UX. • Collaborate with advising engineers from accelerator programs to design backend RESTful routes. • Planned business specification with CEO and oversee entire technical flow. ### Chef @ Kinjo Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States •Employed as a chef at a high volume, Michelin Star restaurant, serving dishes nothing lower than perfection to 100+ covers each night. •Built a mini garden; growing four different types of microgreens in the backyard that resulted in fresher taste and better presentations. •Managed restaurants budget on produce, maintain good relationships with vendors, resulting in 20% savings. ### Chef @ Ginto Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area * Engaged with customers at the sushi bar to provide exceptional service and build strong relationships. * Maintained consistency in preparing food item according to recipe. * Instructed new staff in proper food preparation, food storage, use of kitchen equipment and utensils, sanitation and safety issues. ## Education ### App Academy ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mechanical Engineering The City College of New York ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alvin-chong-sf --- Source: https://flows.cv/alvinc JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alvinc/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29