# Edward Chen

> Senior Software Engineer at Samsung Smartthings

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/edwardchen

Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems capable of handling thousands of requests per second. I’ve worked across multiple teams to optimize system performance and reduce costs, leveraging relationships with vendors and engineering efficient, cost-effective solutions. Known for fostering collaboration and driving impactful engineering improvements.

On the backend, I have extensive experience building reliable systems using Python, Node.js, and Java, often paired with Redis to ensure fast and efficient data access. I’ve also implemented reverse proxy and load balancing solutions using Nginx to support high-traffic applications.

For frontend work, I’ve developed intuitive user interfaces using JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS, creating seamless user experiences that complement the power of backend services.

In the infrastructure space, I’ve deployed and managed cloud resources on AWS, automated workflows with Terraform, and containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes. I’m skilled at building CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins and Spinnaker and using Ansible for configuration management.

My database experience spans both SQL and NoSQL, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB, enabling me to select and optimize storage solutions tailored to the system's needs.

I’m passionate about building scalable, maintainable systems that solve real-world problems and enjoy working with teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer at Samsung Smartthings @ Samsung Research America (SRA)
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
• Developed an Energy Monitoring Dashboard using React and Golang, allowing users to track real‐time
power consumption of connected devices, leading to 12% average energy savings per household.
• Led a five‐man team for an ISO audit. Worked cross team with Boto3, and Terraform modules to assign VPCs to non‐compliant Lambdas and lock down S3 buckets to achieve security clearance.
• Blocked malicious or unintentional traffic (45% Reduction) by implementing load shedding with Launch‐ Darkly and Nginx, preventing spam requests from degrading service performance.
• Architected and deployed a cost‐monitoring microservice suite leveraging React, JavaScript, Kubernetes, and Slackbot automation, enabling anomaly detection and proactive Slack alerts on unexpected cost spikes—driving a 28% reduction in major EC2 operational expenses.
• Enhanced Spinnaker DevOps pipelines by integrating Jenkins functional tests and Managed Delivery, reducing deployment times that would go to release by 33% and expediting production hotfix resolutions.
• Standardized Smartthings infrastructure to be in line with Samsung by adhering to changes made through ISO and CSP audits. Worked cross regional with a team in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Mountain View, California
• Optimized costs at scale by implementing automated scaling policies across multi‑regions to scale up during peak times to reduce latency and unused instances resulting in a 42% decrease in EC2 cost.
• Led a five‑man team for an ISO audit. Worked cross team with Boto3, and Terraform modules to assign
VPCs to non‑compliant Lambdas and lock down S3 buckets to achieve security clearance.

### Software Engineer @ TextRecruit, an iCIMS Company
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Optimized system monitoring by integrating Datadog APM and Sumo Logic, increasing platform‑wide
incident visibility by 24% for high‑traffic services.
• Engineered REST APIs using JavaScript, Elasticsearch, and Java to allow our customers to search and engage candidates through the TextRecruit app which allows recruiters to contact candidates on the go.
• Led a team of three to develop an international job platform leveraging Google Maps API. Automating the recruitment process for recruiters.
• Streamlined repository migration across multiple CI tools, including GitLab, CircleCI, and GitHub Actions, securing optimal vendor contracts due to our flexibility.

### Software Engineer @ Bot M.D.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California
Bot MD is an AI clinical assistant for doctors
Scraped thousands of articles on the web using python and utilized that data to populate our machine
learning model with NLP to our Postgres DB.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
UC Irvine
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/suzard
- GitHub: https://github.com/Suzard
- Website: https://twitter.com/edchenc6

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Source: https://flows.cv/edwardchen
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Last updated: 2026-03-22