# Jesse Chen

> SDE II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jessechen

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States
Developer on the Amazon SageMaker team

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Developer on the Aurora Storage team

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Developer on the Aurora Storage team

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
•Developer on Aurora storage team in charge of optimizing storage node performance within Aurora infrastructure
•Worked on new model-based testing framework to be used to test Aurora functionality and performance under load
•Model-based testing framework was designed to massively improve test coverage as new test cases could be generated on the fly by randomly transitioning between states (with database states as vertices and database operations as edges)
•Focused on testing storage node peer-to-peer replication to ensure data durability for MySQL and PostgreSQL workloads
•Integrated model based tests with the existing Aurora development pipeline, increasing test coverage and speed

### Computer Science Instructor @ Juni Learning
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California
•Mentored students ages 10-16 one on one on programming basics in Python and Java
•Taught topics like graphics and data structures by walking students through custom projects and exercises

### CS61C Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
•Taught and assisted students on CS class assigned labs and projects across various programming environments
•Mentored students on CS fundamentals including caching strategies, assembly code, and virtual pages

### CS61B Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
•Taught and assisted students on CS class assigned labs and projects across various programming environments
•Mentored students on CS fundamentals including data structures, sorting, and algorithms


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Mars Area Senior High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jchen100

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Last updated: 2026-03-29