Henry Lai
Full Stack Software Engineer
SeaTac,WA
Summary
Highly-skilled and motivated software engineer with 7.5 years of professional working experience in leading cloud-based architecture, system design, product development, and data platform building. Skilled in various programming languages and technologies, consistently achieving cost reductions and enhancing efficiency both at the project level and company-wide.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
10
10
Languages
Work History
Software Engineer
Bayview Asset Management
03.2023 - Current
- Worked on scaling a newly launched product from 100 users to 250,000 users.
- Performed system-wide latency analysis and optimized API performance for improved user experience and system efficiency by developing asynchronous internal processes that helped to reduce customer-facing latency by > 75%.
- Was the team lead who led multiple projects, including building out a revenue-generating, customer-facing mortgage refinancing loan quote product which integrated with multiple third-party systems.
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance, and stakeholders to resolve technical issues.
Software Engineer I & Software Engineer II
Amazon
06.2017 - 03.2023
- Developed and maintaining high availability systems responsible for customer receipt accuracy.
- Worked on backend services which involved processing and refining cross-team data using AWS technologies such as DynamoDB, S3, Elasticsearch, EC2, and AWS Lambda.
- Worked on frontend web applications which involved integrating with backend services and displaying complex media and sensor data in a user-friendly manner using TypeScript and Angular.
- Mentored junior engineers, teaching architectural and system design principles as well as training them on becoming an effective on-call engineer.
Software Developer, Intern
Alaska National Insurance Company
06.2016 - 09.2016
- Worked on cross-team projects with other interns to create a web application to automate processing of medical claims (C#, ASP.NET MVC 5, Bootstrap, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, SQL Server)
- Worked on a solo project to design and create a SharePoint website to be used by company employees (SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Server Enterprise, SharePoint Designer, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#)
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Systems
University of Washington
09.2011 - 07.2017
Skills
Critical Thinking
Additional Information
- RollCall: Android application that allows friends or coworkers to quickly notify each other when they are ready to meet.
- SIC 2016 Hackathon Finalist: Placed in the finals (top 5) of the Seattle Interactive Conference 2016 Hackathon
Timeline
Software Engineer
Bayview Asset Management
03.2023 - Current
Software Engineer I & Software Engineer II
Amazon
06.2017 - 03.2023
Software Developer, Intern
Alaska National Insurance Company
06.2016 - 09.2016
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Systems
University of Washington
09.2011 - 07.2017
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