# Eric Chen

> Full Stack Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ericchen1

I’m a full-stack software engineer passionate about building scalable, high-impact systems that help teams work smarter and faster. I specialize in creating reliable, maintainable software across enterprise and startup environments, solving complex problems end-to-end. I’m always eager to learn, grow, and contribute in new roles and opportunities where I can make an impact.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2024 – Present
- Collaborate with product and UX teams to deliver continuous enhancements to MyTech, Walmart’s internal one-stop shop for associate tooling.
- Increased MyTech Appstore integration test coverage by 85%, enabling automated production deployment approvals and strengthened CI/CD compliance.
- Refactored access-control logic into a reusable wrapper component and reduced API calls from 7 to 3, cutting Laptop Ordering module API traffic by 50%+.
- Designed and implemented a scalable tagging system for AI-based license dialogs, laying groundwork for future tag-based search and filtering.

### Full-stack Software Engineer @ K-Pop Nara
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Built and maintained a full-stack application centralizing inventory data and generating per-store low-stock alerts.
- Integrated Square APIs with automated ingestion scripts and custom sales-velocity calculations, reducing stock-related issues by 30%.
- Designed normalized PostgreSQL schemas (One-to-Many JPA models) to link products, artists, and stock across five storefronts, reducing DB size by 75%.
- Developed a RESTful middleware layer using Spring Boot, Gradle, and Kotlin, with service-layer transaction orchestration and DAO-DTO conversions.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Nex9, LLC
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
- Developed an end-to-end authentication system securing admin-level actions.
- Implemented privilege-based login using magic links and OAuth in Next.js via NextAuth and Prisma.
- Designed custom Prisma schemas for user/session persistence to prevent mid-navigation logouts, improving overall user experience.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Stuyvesant High School Endorsed Diploma
Stuyvesant High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ericc5

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Last updated: 2026-04-05