2024
ShipMate — Real-Time Logistics Dashboard
A real-time shipment tracking platform with live map updates, predictive ETAs, and role-based dashboards for shippers, carriers, and end customers.
San Francisco, CA · Available for work
Alex Chen — Full-Stack Engineer
Full-stack engineer with 6+ years shipping production TypeScript, React, and Node.js applications. I obsess over performance, accessibility, and developer experience — turning complex problems into fast, elegant products.
Selected work
A few things I've designed, built, and shipped.
2024
EdgeCommerce — Edge-Rendered Storefront
A headless storefront rendered at the edge with sub-100ms TTFB, dynamic personalization, and a checkout conversion rate 38% above the client's previous site.
Milestones
Certifications, awards, and measurable outcomes.
CertificationMarch 2024
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Earned the Solutions Architect – Associate certification after designing and deploying resilient, cost-optimized architectures on AWS for production workloads.
SAA-C03Verify
Impact MetricJuly 2023
Optimized Legacy API Performance by 300%
Enterprise FinTech Client
Profiled and rewrote a critical payments endpoint, cutting p99 latency from 1.4s to 340ms and saving the client an estimated $80k/year in infrastructure.
+300%
AwardNovember 2023
1st Place — Global AI Hackathon
TechCrunch + Major League Hacking
Led a four-person team to first place out of 500 teams, building an AI-powered accessibility assistant for the web in 48 hours.
#1 / 500Verify
SpeakingSeptember 2023
Speaker — TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
TechCrunch
Delivered a main-stage talk on 'Shipping Fast Without Breaking Things' — covering edge rendering and progressive delivery to an audience of 5,000+ engineers.
5k attendeesVerify
Stack
The tools I reach for to ship fast, reliable software.
Frontend
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Astro
- Tailwind CSS
- Vue
Backend
- Node.js
- Python
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- GraphQL
DevOps
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Vercel
Tools
- Git
- VS Code
- Figma
- Jest
- Vitest
- Playwright
Let's build something together
Open to full-time roles, contract work, and collaboration. The fastest way to reach me is email.
hello@example.comSan Francisco, CA