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Yuan-Hao Chen - Software Engineer – Intern in Urbana, IL

Yuan-Hao Chen

Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud infrastructure

ReDirectUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, IL1 Years ExperienceIntern LevelWorks On-Site

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Backend-focused intern who owned real-time livestream features: live comment moderation using AWS Comprehend (sentiment/toxicity/PII) with safe fallbacks, plus AI-generated positive commentary via AWS Bedrock (Claude 3 Haiku). Emphasizes reliability/low-latency design, IAM troubleshooting, and disciplined GitOps-style CI workflows for reproducible deployments.

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Key Strengths

  • Owned end-to-end backend features for real-time livestream app (moderation + AI commentary)
  • Integrated AWS AI services (Comprehend, Bedrock) with reliability-focused fallbacks
  • Diagnosed and resolved AWS IAM/permissions issues via tighter policies and improved logging
  • Designed for low-latency, bursty real-time traffic with defensive error handling
  • Applied GitOps-style workflows (Git as source of truth, PR-based infra changes, fast rollback)
  • Incremental migration/rollout planning with staging validation and backward compatibility
  • Strong conceptual understanding of streaming systems bottlenecks and mitigations (partitioning, lag, monitoring)

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Experience

Software Engineer – InternReDirect · May 2025 – Presentinternship
Backend EngineerHere @ UIUC · Apr 2025 – Present
Software Engineer – Capstone ProjectSLB Software · Aug 2024 – Dec 2024

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaignmaster, Computer Engineering (2025)
National Taiwan Universitybachelor, Electrical Engineering (2018)
National Taiwan Universitymaster, Business Administration (2020)

Awards

  • Top 3 of 26 teams - Cache Design Research (Distributed Cache Optimization)

Languages

English

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Yuan-Hao ChenIntern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud infrastructure