YiKai Chen

Full-Stack Engineer

Taiwan

About

Highly analytical and goal-oriented Backend Engineer with 6 years of practical experience. Excel in backend development, passionately transferring skills and insights to enhance team capabilities. Skills: Golang / React / C# / Vue2 / Node.js / Docker / Linux

Experience

  • Intermediate FullStack Engineer at Employment Hero
    Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mos

  • Senior Backend Engineer at Saka Saka Ltd
    Mar 2025 - Dec 2025 · 10 mos

    Project: Card Searching Website * Reduced Cloud Costs by 70%: Designed an intelligent caching strategy with WebP compression (130KB→20KB, 85% reduction) and CDN optimization, supporting 60,000+ cards while reducing backend load from 5 requests per user per day to near-zero. * Delivered Cross-Team Architecture in 2 Weeks: Led technical decision-making across backend (Go), frontend (Next.js), and cloud infrastructure (AWS Lambda, S3, Cloudfront, CloudFormation IaC), establishing API standards and deployment pipelines for rapid iteration. * Designed Scalable Microservice Architecture: Implemented clean separation of concerns with CDN handling static assets, frontend managing search logic, and backend focused solely on API services, enabling 10x user growth without additional infrastructure costs.

  • Full-stack Developer at Dot Zero Co., Ltd
    Feb 2020 - Feb 2025 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Skills: Golang / Node.js / React / C# / Vue2 / Docker /Shell script Project: Distributed System Resilience & Data Integrity * Reduced RTO by 95%: Reduced recovery time objective (RTO) from one day to one hour by implementing an automated failover system with health-check monitoring, significantly enhancing service resilience. * Achieved Near-Zero RPO: Architected a resilient data pipeline using RabbitMQ with a dual-collection backup solution, guaranteeing data integrity for critical real-time device metrics. * Boosted Data Collection by 390%: Drove a significant performance increase by optimizing SQL queries, implementing proper indexing, and refactoring the system architecture. Project: On-Premise Delivery & Automation * Reduced Deployment Time by 99%: Engineered an automated batch deployment system for dozens of on-premise clients, cutting update time from over 35 person-hours of manual work to under 15 minutes. Project: Developer Workflow & Communication * Led Full-Stack System Development: Architected and developed a full-stack automation system integrated with GitLab CI/CD, serving as a single source of truth for release communications. * Saved 10+ Developer Hours Monthly: Enhanced stakeholder transparency and streamlined developer workflows by automating release scheduling and notifications. Project: Team Leadership & Mentorship * Reduced Intern Onboarding by 67%: Decreased the onboarding time for new interns from 3 months to 1 month by preparing structured educational materials and tours. * Mentored Interns to Full-Time Roles: Mentored 4 interns, 75% transitioned to full-time engineering roles.

  • Teaching Assistant at ALPHA Camp
    Aug 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    - Check the students' homework and give them feedback. - Be the lecturer for the course to introduce the basic knowledge of CURD

  • Website Developer at 中碩知識管理顧問股份有限公司
    Jul 2018 - Jun 2019 · 1 yr

    - Maintain and develop an inner management system using Spring. - Build the official website from 0 to 1 with WordPress(including domain name registration, server renting, etc)