# John C.

> Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/johnc1

Backend engineer, building and maintaining systems at scale with AWS. Comfortable writing in Java, Python, Typescript & Ruby.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ New Jersey State Office of Innovation
Jan 2024 – Present

### Frontend Developer @ John Chan Consulting
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
Freelance web design for clients while pursuing a career in acting (Off-Broadway, Shakespeare).

Sourced clients, wrote proposals for projects, and worked with clients to incorporate their feedback into beautiful websites.

Optimized website performance with Webpack and static assets, leading to 60 percent faster load times and enhanced user experience.

### Software Engineer | Whole Foods @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
Tech lead for real-time inventory systems at Whole Foods. Responsible for both frontend and backend systems used across all Whole Foods stores in the USA.

● Specified design and led team of 3 SDE Is to create service to process hundreds of Purchase Orders daily
● Built tool for bulk movement of inventory that caused a 23% UPH efficiency increase in WFM stores
● Designed variable-weight aware inventory system for use in all Amazon physical retail stores
● Mentored SDE Is, providing career advice and helping write 2 successful promotion documents for SDE II
● Improved operational excellence on the team, reducing average weekly incoming ticket count from 30 to 13

### Software Engineer | AWS @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
● Created an automation platform for AWS service builds using a microservice architecture built on
Java/Python/Docker at AWS, as part of the Region Build team.
● Redesigned AWS ElasticSearch’s region build, working with the parent team to eliminate over 30 hours of oncall
effort per build-out.
● Implemented plugins for Hosted Zone Creation, CloudFormation Synthesis, and AWS Account Creation.

### Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area
● Automated test vector generation for 200+test cases for 8 unique LTE/5G modes using Python.
● Created framework for testing 5G wireless modem designs using UVM methodology used across the org.

### Research Assistant @ National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Gainesville, Florida Area
● Conducted NSF-funded research project examining MRI scans to quantify impact of aging on brain connectivity.
● Created poster that won first prize in Systems Neuroscience research competition.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Spanish Language and Literature
Universidad de Salamanca
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### Liberal Arts & Science Academy
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01