Yang Chen

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and building scalable, resilient distributed systems. I focus on microservices, API-driven architectures, and performance optimization to deliver reliable platforms at scale.

At Meta and Microsoft I led migrations to Go-based microservices on Kubernetes, built high-throughput gRPC and REST/GraphQL APIs, and implemented real-time data pipelines using Kafka and cloud-native services. My work improved latencies, reduced costs, and allowed services to handle massive concurrent loads.

I build robust observability and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Jaeger, ELK, OpenTelemetry) and develop Python ETL and automation scripts to aggregate telemetry, reduce MTTD, and support long-term trend analysis. I also enforce resiliency patterns—circuit breakers, retries, rate limiting—and practice chaos testing to prevent cascading failures.

I mentor engineers, drive adoption of best practices in API design and testing, and collaborate with frontend and product teams to deliver customer-facing dashboards and tools. I prioritize secure, PCI- and OAuth-compliant integrations and CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable continuous delivery.