guest@resume:~$whoami

Maya Chen

Senior Backend & Full-Stack Developer — Remote (Central Time)

I build backend systems and the interfaces on top of them: APIs that hold up under real traffic, and dashboards people actually enjoy using. Seven years shipping production code in TypeScript, Go, and Python, mostly for data-heavy products.

guest@resume:~/resume$ls skills/

languages/

typescript
javascript
python
go
sql

frontend/

react
astro
vue
html5
css3

backend/

node.js
express
fastapi
graphql
rest-apis

infra/

docker
postgresql
redis
aws
github-actions

guest@resume:~/resume$cat experience.log

[2023-06 — present]Senior Backend Engineer@ Northwind Data SystemsRemote

Led migration of a monolith to service-based architecture, cutting p95 latency by 38%.
Designed the event pipeline (Kafka + Postgres) now processing ~4M events/day.
Mentored 3 mid-level engineers; introduced RFC process for schema changes.

[2021-02 — 2023-05]Full-Stack Developer@ Fernway LabsAustin, TX

Built the customer-facing dashboard in React + TypeScript from a Figma spec to production.
Shipped a self-serve billing module integrating usage-based pricing, reducing support tickets 22%.
Owned CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions) and cut deploy time from 14 min to 4 min.

[2019-08 — 2021-01]Software Engineer@ Cobalt AnalyticsChicago, IL

Wrote ETL jobs in Python moving ~200GB/day between warehouses with Airflow.
Built internal REST API used by 5 downstream teams; wrote the first version of its docs.

guest@resume:~/resume$./run projects --list

ledgerlyTypeScript · SvelteKit · SQLite

Self-hosted personal finance tracker with double-entry bookkeeping and CSV import.

github.com/mchen-dev/ledgerly ↗

pgwatch-liteGo · Postgres

Lightweight Postgres slow-query watcher that posts daily digest reports to Slack webhooks.

github.com/mchen-dev/pgwatch-lite ↗

inkwellReact · Electron · CRDT

Minimal markdown editor with live preview and local-first sync, built as an Electron app.

github.com/mchen-dev/inkwell ↗

routeplan-apiPython · FastAPI · OR-Tools

Delivery route optimization API demo: solves a constrained VRP and returns GeoJSON routes.

github.com/mchen-dev/routeplan-api ↗

guest@resume:~/resume$cat education.txt

[2015 — 2019]B.S. in Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — Focus: distributed systems. Minor in Statistics.

guest@resume:~/resume$cat contact.txt

Open to senior backend / full-stack roles and interesting contract work.

[email protected]

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