Ning Chen

I'm Ning Chen

Software Development Engineer II

@Amazon

About Me

Gwen
Willow
Ning Chen

Hello! My name is Ning, but I go by Kevin. I'm a software engineer at Amazon with 4 years of experience, and I've spent the past year working on the Amazon Leo Commerce team. My work spans the full stack—building robust backend services in Java, creating responsive user interfaces with React, and leveraging AWS infrastructure to scale applications globally. I've developed particular expertise in CloudWatch for monitoring, DynamoDB for data persistence, ECS and Lambda for compute, Fargate for container orchestration, and more recently, Bedrock for generative AI capabilities.

Outside the office, I'm usually planning my next trip, attempting new recipes (with varying degrees of success), exploring hiking trails, kayaking on the weekends, or playing competitive badminton. I'm also a board game enthusiast and proud cat parent to Willow and Gwen—the two adorable troublemakers pictured above who occasionally walk across my keyboard during meetings.

Skills & Technologies

Java

Java

Python

Python

Kotlin

Kotlin

JavaScript

JavaScript

TypeScript

TypeScript

HTML

HTML

CSS

CSS

React

React

Node.js

Node.js

AWS

AWS

Git

Git

Gradle

Gradle

Kiro

Kiro

Work Experience

Software Development Engineer

Amazon.com

Aug 2021 – Present

  • • Increased credit card application completion rates by 23% through implementing a session persistence feature that enabled customers to resume incomplete applications.
  • • Modernized legacy infrastructure through AWS cloud migration and implemented optimizations to the card application service resulting in a 2-month reduction in new marketplace launch time, 2x faster front-end build performance, and 6.5x smaller page assets for improved application load times.

Software Developer Intern

American Airlines

May 2019 - May 2021

  • • Created a web services client with Java and the framework Spring Boot as the backend as well as Java Server Pages (HTML) and XML to learn how to query our APIs, reduced the time to learn to use our team's APIs from weeks to hours
  • • Improved the interface of a Spring Boot front-end for monitoring Kafka by supporting different endpoints using a dropdown menu and supporting it throughout the interface
  • • Worked on integrating chaos engineering with VMware Mangle to the team's deployment workflow to improve resiliency of the team's development process

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