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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

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

Work experiences

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

Educations

國立交通大學

Bachelor’s Degree
資訊工程

2014 - 2018
Activities and societies
羽球校隊
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