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Tao Chen
Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web products
Creatify AIUniversity of ArizonaMountain View, CA7 Years ExperienceSenior Level
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Backend/data engineer who has built production AI video generation services on AWS using a hybrid serverless + container architecture (FastAPI, Lambda, ECS, Postgres/Redis) with strong reliability practices (auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, CloudWatch + Slack alerting). Also delivered AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution handling and modernized a legacy SAS healthcare reporting workflow to Python with parity validation and parallel-run migration.
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Designed and delivered event-driven AI video generation backend on AWS (Lambda + ECS) using FastAPI/Node.js
Production reliability engineering: JWT/API Gateway auth, timeouts, exponential-backoff retries, structured logging, CloudWatch monitoring and Slack alerting
Infrastructure-as-code and automated deployments (Terraform + GitHub Actions) for Lambda and container services
ETL/data pipeline ownership with AWS Glue including schema evolution resilience and data quality validation
Legacy SAS workflow modernization to Python with parity testing on historical data and parallel run cutover
SQL performance optimization (reduced reporting query runtime from >60s to <10s via indexing and batching)
Incident response for batch/data pipeline failures: rapid triage via CloudWatch, mitigation via reruns, and prevention via improved monitoring and input validation
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Experience
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“Worked on an AI-adjacent search/results product with a React front end and an API-driven backend, focusing on scalability and performance. Emphasizes decoupled JSON API architecture, React rendering optimizations (useMemo/useCallback), and large-dataset techniques like virtualization, plus strong user-issue triage via log analysis and edge-case fixes in query handling/ranking.”
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“Full-stack product engineer who has shipped AI-powered job board moderation and validation features end to end across React/TypeScript, serverless backends, and Postgres. Stands out for combining UX polish, LLM-backed workflow design, and reusable async infrastructure patterns to improve reliability, speed of delivery, and user participation.”