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Raoyin Chen

Seattle,WA

Summary

Senior software engineer at Google with 8 years of experience, specializing in building cloud backend services.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Google
08.2022 - Current

Google Cloud – Telemetry Service Team

  • Led the VM Availability initiative as the tech lead, collaborating with cross-functional teams (Networking, SSD, GPU) to develop VM telemetry solutions, enhancing alerts and dashboards for proactive monitoring, which detected 100+ real issues before customers know (an increment of 100%) in 2 years.
  • Spearheaded the Engineering Excellence Champion Program, driving initiatives to reduce technical debt and optimize operational processes. Implemented improvements that resulted in a 20% reduction in on-call tickets by refining playbooks and enhancing system reliability.

Senior Software Engineer

Meta
05.2021 - 08.2022

Developer Platform Team

  • Led the development of the Facebook Test User Tool, enabling millions of third-party developers to seamlessly create, edit, update, and remove test users for their platform apps, improving testing efficiency and developer experience.
  • Directed the creation of Integrity System Platform, standardizing and automating the audit process for platform apps, resulting in a 90% reduction in manual review time and significantly improving compliance efficiency.

Software Engineer

Oracle Cloud
12.2019 - 05.2021

Host Provisioning Service Team

  • Led the refactoring of a monolithic bare-metal host provisioning service into a microservices architecture, optimizing performance and reducing provisioning workflow runtime by 20%.
  • Designed and implemented end-to-end pre-production test stacks, cutting the team's waiting time from 3 hours to zero, accelerating development cycles and improving operational efficiency.

Software Development Engineer I, II

Amazon
04.2016 - 12.2019

Alexa Communication Team

  • Designed an on-demand device registration strategy leveraging AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS), optimizing resource utilization and achieving $6,000+ monthly cost savings on server expenses.
  • Developed and implemented an exponential back-off retry strategy for device registration requests using AWS SQS, enhancing system availability from 99% to 99.9%, ensuring greater reliability and scalability.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University Of Minnesota Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
2016

Skills

  • Languages: Proficient in C, Java, Python, Hack
  • Technologies & Skills: Kafka, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, protobuf

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Google
08.2022 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Meta
05.2021 - 08.2022

Software Engineer

Oracle Cloud
12.2019 - 05.2021

Software Development Engineer I, II

Amazon
04.2016 - 12.2019

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University Of Minnesota Twin Cities
Raoyin Chen