# Brian Tan

> SWE

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/briantan

Software engineer with experience building and maintaining highly-available distributed systems at scale.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Snowflake
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Mateo, California, United States

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Worked primarily in a backend role on building and maintaining distributed systems. Designed and implemented new APIs/features for Amazon Lightsail to deliver value to customers across the globe.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ Pico Digital
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Diego
Developed command line tools in Python and C for internal use, primarily for handling multiplexed MPEG-2 and UDP packets to send to a satellite modulator.

Automated software update testing for hardware products by working on a web-based testing application built with Java and Spring, STOMP, and PostgreSQL.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Finovera, Inc
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Milpitas
Updated a system in Java to save and retrieve large amounts of BSON documents from Amazon S3 storage to improve scalability.

Wrote a command line application with Java and shell scripts to automate back-ups to Amazon Glacier, which decreased costs from storing backups locally.

### Junior Software Intern @ International Technological University (ITU)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Jose
Integrated the Zendesk RESTful API with a Rails web application to create a customer support platform with a customized frontend to incorporate as a feature within the student site; tie in the application with the Zendesk backend and console for organized ticket resolution.

Helped software engineers with developing the student website using Ruby and Ruby on Rails and performed black box testing on a quality assurance team.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tanruibrian

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Last updated: 2026-03-29