Samuel Chen

04/2022 - Present

Taiwan

Software Engineer, Houzz

● Design and develop an out-of-stock email campaign system to send users emails for products that are out of stock in their cart or wishlist, resulting in approximately 48% email open rates and 11.5% click rates.
● Redesign the entire payout flow to vendors to enhance flexibility in invoice creation and eliminate the need for manual intervention and assistance from developers.
● Design and develop scheduled jobs to monitor key metrics of A/B tests across entire marketplace groups. Generating reports enables data scientists and businesses to review and evaluate performance.

09/2019 - 01/2022

Phoenix, USA

Software Engineer, Workiva

● Design and develop applications using Java, Spring Boot and RESTful architecture.
● Develop event-handling service in python as a state machine deployed as an AWS Lambda.
Implementation including event authorization, duplicate events handling, data lookup, data
evaluation and validation, caching, rate limiting and throttling.
● Write end-to-end tests to ensure the system has satisfied the business requirements and met the
acceptance criteria. Testing environment including shell scripting, container configuration and tuning properties files.
● Unit tests and integration tests for testing code functionality and modules’ integration.
● Deploy and maintain AWS resources, including S3, RDS, Kinesis, SQS, Lambda and Cloudwatch,
etc in Cloudformation templates