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Kirin Hou

Software Engineer
Software Engineer at Xendit. 5+ years experience in cloud native application development, specializing in containerized backend development, infrastructure as code and continuous integration.
Xendit
國立交通大學
Taipei, 台灣

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Employed
  • Profession
    Back-end Engineer
    DevOps / System Admin
  • Fields
    Software
  • Work experience
    2-4 years (2-4 years relevant)
  • Management
    I've had experience in managing 1-5 people
  • Skills
    Node.js
    Python
    Linux
    Git
    Google Cloud Platform
    TypeScript
    AWS
    Kubernetes
    Docker
    Helm
    Circle CI
    Github Actions
    Apollo GraphQL
    Nest.js
    Terraform
    AWS CDK
    PostgreSQL
  • Languages
    English
    Fluent
  • Highest level of education
    Bachelor

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    軟體工程師, 網路程式設計師, 網頁後端工程師
  • Desired work locations
    Taipei, Taiwan
    United States
  • Freelance
    Non-freelancer

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Xendit
Full-time
Aug 2021 - Present
Taipei City, Taiwan
• Developed a financial backend service in a 10+ engineers agile team using high-collab. approaches like remote pair programming • Migrated & deployed a distributed system to be production ready on AWS EKS with minimal downtime of 4 minutes • Proposed solution architectures, provisioned infra. & CI/CD pipelines for 8+ services on 10+ different AWS services managed by Terraform • Served as team lead administrator of AWS; conducted investigations & resolved 4+ production incidents for multiple teams
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Senior Engineer

Trend Micro
Full-time
Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
1 yr 11 mos
Taipei City, Taiwan
• Integrated internal intelligence API services using GraphQL and Kubernetes for ~400 engineers and threat researchers in threat hunting • Moved an on-promise system to AWS. Built containerized scalable deployment with AWS Fargate & CDK which reduced ~20% of cost • Served as team lead administrator of Kubernetes on AWS; operated 3 clusters & 10+ production workloads • Introduced IaC tool AWS CDK to our team; provisioned 4 system infrastructures that consist of 6+ different AWS services like AWS Glue, Step Functions & RDS • Optimized CI/CD pipelines for 6+ projects using prebuilt images, caching & parallelism; adopted conventional commits & semantic versioning that reduced up to 75% of deployment time

Full Stack Engineer

Ugotit Design Inc.
Full-time
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
7 mos
Taipei City, Taiwan
• Designed & implemented scalable systems with Google App Engine & Cloud Scheduler that served 250+ concurrent users and above 500 QPS • Served as tech lead & system architect of 4 web-based game projects that generated revenue of over 1 million for the company in 7 months • Focused on backend development with Node.js & MongoDB; cooperated with frontend engineers to design state management with React Redux; set up frontend build system with Webpack, Babel & Gulp • Adopted agile development with unit testing & integration testing using ESLint, Mocha & Travis CI with 83% of code coverage

Education

Bachelor’s Degree
資訊工程
2014 - 2018
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