WEI-AN CHEN
Seattle
Summary
Accomplished Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. Delivered significant enhancements in scalability, reliability, and deployment efficiency for Azure compute platforms. Built and optimized critical infrastructure for large-scale workloads, currently developing user billing and monetization systems.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Stripe
Seattle
04.2026 - Current
- developed user billing and monetization infrastructure, enhancing product onboarding experience.
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Redmond
07.2020 - 03.2026
- Expanded reboot-based end-to-end validation and recovery flows, improving update reliability, accelerating node recovery, and enabling more autonomous, resilient maintenance for OpenAI production clusters.
- Led optimization of deployment infrastructure within the Cloud Compute team, improving fleet update efficiency from 95% to 99.99% through enhanced automation and monitoring systems.
- Expanded reboot-based end-to-end validation and recovery flows, improving update reliability, accelerating node recovery, and enabling more autonomous, resilient maintenance for OpenAI production clusters.
- Developed software for System on Chip SoC node repair and data deployment services, improving operational efficiency and system reliability in complex environments.
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
Seattle
10.2017 - 01.2020
- Enhanced AWS Systems Manager services across 10+ cloud regions by developing scalable distributed systems.
- Optimized AWS management through custom RESTful APIs, reducing infrastructure complexity.
Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon
Seattle
06.2017 - 08.2017
- Working as a full-stack engineer for Flex at Amazon Fulfillment Service. Built a tool for analyzing account relationships to prevent fraud and abuse.
Software Development Engineer Intern
Synopsys Inc
Hsinchu
05.2016 - 08.2016
- Structured automated debugging tool using Perl within Linux / Unix environment. Resolved string manipulation issue to extract corresponding syntax from massive data pool.
Education
Master of Science (MS) - Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA05-2017
Master of Science (MS) - Chemical Engineering
National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu, Taiwan09-2012
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Chemical Engineering
National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu, Taiwan05-2026
Skills
- NET Core
- C#
- Java
- C
- Python
- SQL/Kusto
- PostgreSQL
- Kusto
- Redis
- AWS
- Azure
- Git
- GitLab CI/CD
- Message Queuing
- Distributed Systems
- Query Optimization
- Swagger
Websites
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Stripe
04.2026 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
07.2020 - 03.2026
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
10.2017 - 01.2020
Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon
06.2017 - 08.2017
Software Development Engineer Intern
Synopsys Inc
05.2016 - 08.2016
Master of Science (MS) - Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
Master of Science (MS) - Chemical Engineering
National Tsing Hua University
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Chemical Engineering
National Tsing Hua University