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Richmond Chang

@richmondchang

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Senior backend software engineer building scalable, resilient, data-intensive systems for high-traffic platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek backend/platform roles where I can architect scalable, reliable distributed systems, lead cloud-native initiatives, and integrate ML workflows in collaborative, growth-oriented teams.

I am a Senior Backend Software Engineer with 10+ years designing, building, and operating scalable, high-performance backend systems across enterprise, research, gaming, and media environments. I deliver secure APIs, high-throughput data pipelines, and microservices-based platforms using Python, Java, C#, Go, and TypeScript, with production experience supporting millions to billions of records and integrations with Google, Sony Interactive Entertainment, and Electronic Arts.

My work emphasizes reliability and maintainability: I architect distributed services, model strongly consistent schemas, and implement resilient patterns (asynchronous processing, idempotent writes, retries, backpressure). I have led migrations, reduced latencies and processing times, and developed AI-ready workflows and ML-augmented automation that improve operational efficiency and developer velocity.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

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Seamgen

Nov 2024 - Present (1 year 2 months)

Designed and implemented AI-ready microservices backends in C#, Java, Go, and Python handling 500K+ requests/day with p95 <250ms and 99.9%+ uptime; built versioned REST APIs and high-throughput ML-optimized ingestion pipelines processing millions of records/day.

C++Java Go Python Microservices REST APIs Data Pipelines High Throughput Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Artech L.L.C.

Oct 2023 - Oct 2024 (1 year)

Led backend rewrite of a large-scale research publication platform for Google, migrating to Java frameworks and Spanner to model strongly consistent schemas and reduce publication processing latency by ~40%.

Java Guice Protobuf Spanner Distributed Systems Microservices Scalability Performance Optimization

Software Engineer

Electronic Arts

May 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 10 months)

Developed backend systems for large-scale multiplayer mobile and online games, designing transactional inventory and reward systems and handling >1M requests/day on Google Cloud; built automated bot frameworks to simulate 10K+ concurrent players.

TypeScript Google Cloud Platform Distributed Systems Concurrency Load Testing Backend

Software Engineer

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Mar 2018 - Apr 2021 (3 years 1 month)

Built Java Spring Boot microservices for the PS5 Official News platform on AWS, led data migrations reducing execution time from months to ~1 week, and scaled services to deliver 10M+ records per request while enforcing RBAC and secure integrations.

Java Spring Boot AWS S3 SES OAuth Data Migration & Security

Software Engineer

GumGum

Sep 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 5 months)

Developed backend services and real-time/batch data pipelines for a visual intelligence platform processing ~15M social posts/day using Java Spring, Kinesis, Apache Storm, S3, and Elasticsearch, improving pipeline reliability and throughput.

Java Spring Kinesis Apache Storm Elasticsearch AWS S3 Data Pipelines

Programmer Analyst

UC Irvine

Jul 2015 - Sep 2016 (1 year 2 months)

Executed large-scale SQL/Oracle data migrations and built Java web applications and SFTP automation for financial and student systems, reconciling 100+ legacy tables and implementing audit-capable failure recovery.

SQL Oracle Java BASH Data Migration ETL Automation Auditing

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of California, Irvine

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science / Software Engineering

2011 - 2015

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Software Engineering with coursework and projects in software engineering, data systems, and backend development.