Marcus Chen
Cloud EngineerEmail:marcus.chen@aws.com
Phone:+1 206 555 0198
Location:Seattle, WA
Professional Summary
Cloud architect helping enterprise customers scale on AWS. AWS Ambassador 2024. Known for clear communication, ownership, and shipping measurable outcomes. Combines strong software fundamentals with cross-functional collaboration and a bias for execution.Experience
Jul 2021Present
Senior Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services · Seattle
• Architected multi-region deployments for 12 Fortune 500 customers• Contributed 4 whitepapers downloaded 240k+ times
• AWS re:Invent speaker 3 years running
• Owned critical services at Amazon Web Services; improved p95 latency by 28%
• Led migration of 3 services to modern stack with zero downtime
Jan 2020Dec 2021
Backend Engineer
Acme Cloud · Singapore
• Led migration of 4 services to modern stack with zero downtime• Mentored 2 engineers; 2 promoted within a year
• Reduced production incidents 15% via better observability and runbooks
• Partnered with product to ship 3 high-impact features used by 95k users
• Cut cloud spend 20% through right-sizing and caching
Skills
AWS (all services), Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Networking, SecurityProjects
Developer Experience Toolkit (Amazon Web Services)
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Data Sync Pipeline
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Platform Reliability Upgrade
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Education
B.S, Computer Engineering
UW Seattle
Seattle
Certifications
AWS SA Pro
AWS DevOps Pro
CKA