Vincent CHEN

Software Engineer | 🦀

United States

About

Trading & building

Experience

  • Staff Software Engineer at Paxos
    Jan 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Tech lead of the core ledger team.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Jun 2015 - Jan 2023 · 7 yrs 8 mos

    Built and launched these services & features: * AWS WAF (2015) * AWS WAF Regional (2016) * AWS WAF v2 (2019) * AWS WAF Bot Control (2021) * AWS WAF CAPTCHA & Account Takeover Prevention (2022) Worked on "bots intelligence" initiative. Leading an effort to build a ETL pipeline that is able to ingest, preprocess and repartition 22PB+/day (875B+ requests/day and keep growing) log records for tens of thousands of customers with highly-skewed distribution in us-east-1 region using Rust / containerization / Apache Arrow. It serves as cornerstone to provide a convenient data source for various ML models that detects advanced bots threats. This pipeline also enables AWS Shield improving its p99 time to detection from 6~12 mins to constantly below 2 mins. Prior to that, I was one of the initial 6 engineers launching the first version of AWS WAF back in 2015. I used to do full-stack development on console, customer facing APIs, change propagation, and the distributed server fleet. As the AWS WAF team continues growing, I became the tech lead of the WAF control plane team in 2019, primarily owning console, API, usage metering and customer facing visibility features.

  • Algorithmic Trader at Gelber Group LLC
    Aug 2014 - Apr 2015 · 9 mos

    Staring at a lot of numbers, programming to manipulate huge amount of numbers, clicking on a few numbers, and enjoying a growing number...

  • Part-time Quantitative Developer at ScalpTrade
    Nov 2013 - Feb 2014 · 4 mos

    • Implemented a multithreading high performance Level-2 data viewer using C#. Which could display large number of different order books on the same screen without drawing down the refresh rate. • Design and implement in-house trading platform using C# and C++.

  • Software Engineer at Microsoft
    Sep 2012 - Jun 2013 · 10 mos

    Bing for iPad • Doing iOS development in Microsoft