Maya Chen
Backend Software Engineer
Berlin, Germany
maya.chen@example.com | linkedin.com/in/mayachen | github.com/mayachen

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer, Nordwind Logistics, Berlin
March 2022 - Present
- Led migration of shipment tracking from a monolith to event-driven services, cutting p95 API latency from 900ms to 220ms
- Designed and shipped a retry and dead-letter pipeline handling 40k events per hour
- Mentored two engineers to promotion through design reviews and pairing

Software Engineer, HelioPay, Berlin
June 2019 - February 2022
- Built the merchant payout service in Go and PostgreSQL processing EUR 2M monthly
- Introduced contract tests between services, cutting integration incidents by a third
- On-call rotation for payment infrastructure

Skills

Go, TypeScript, Python
PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
AWS (ECS, RDS, SQS), Terraform
Distributed systems, event-driven architecture, observability

Projects

Parceld, open-source CLI for inspecting dead-letter queues, 400 GitHub stars

Education

BSc Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, 2019