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SIH-HAN (Max) CHEN

Software Engineer @Vpon | GCP Certified Data Engineer, Software Engineer

Taipei–Keelung Metropolitan area
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About Me

Google Cloud Certified Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience delivering data pipelines, full-stack apps, and ML solutions. Proven track record at Vpon designing GCP-based architectures and ELT workflows with BigQuery/dbt, and at Rakuten building high-impact features for a major e-commerce platform using Ruby on Rails and React. Skilled in Python, Java, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, and SQL. Looking to drive data-driven strategies and develop scalable platforms.

Technical Proficiency

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoRRuby

Web Technologies

ReactNext.jsNode.jsRoRHTML/CSS/SASSGraphQL

Data Engineering

PythonSQLBigQueryDBTAirflowLooker Studio

Cloud/DevOps

GCP (Core Services, BigQuery, Firebase)DockerGithub Actions

Databases

PostgreSQLFirestoreSQL/NoSQL concepts

Methodologies/Tools

Agile/ScrumJiraConfluenceFigma

Experience

Software Engineer

Vpon Big Data Group

Nov 2022 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Taipei–Keelung Metropolitan area · On-site
  • Responsible for data transformation ELT pipeline development with dbt and BigQuery
  • Responsible for GCP architecture design for data pipeline and API server
  • Utilized dbt for ELT pipelines and leveraged software engineering experiences to help establish a development workflow
  • Developed frontend applications and APIs for prototypes using React.js and Node.js
  • Developed a recommendation solution that includes prediction models, API on GCP, and an embedded widget for frontend
Data AnalysisETL Tools

Software Engineer

Rakuten

Nov 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr

Taipei City, Taiwan
  • Delivered user-facing features for Rakuten Taiwan Ichiba: participated in multiple epic features, legacy code revamping
  • Cross teams collaborations using Agile scrum Methodology in a bi-weekly sprint basis
  • Used Figma to collaborate with Product UIUX Design Team
  • Developed the e-commerce platform with Ruby on Rails and React.js
  • Experiences in GraphQL, Apollo Clients
  • Experiences in state management libraries: XState
  • System monitoring with Graylog, Grafana and ELK stack

Frontend Engineer

TPI Software

Aug 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Taipei, Taiwan
  • Worked on web projects with Vue and Angular 2+, TypeScript and RxJS
  • Experiences with Firebase and GCP
  • UIUX experiences prototyping with Figma and Sketch
  • Associated project management with Taipei City Government

Research Assistant

Academia Sinica

Aug 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr

Taipei, Taiwan
  • Experiences in data analytics, processing, web crawling, data visualization with R and Python
  • Assisted the empirical econometrics research in energy economics and policies
  • Used Shiny to create simulations with interactive UI

Education

National Taiwan University

B.A. Economics

2014 - 2019

  • Focusing studies on econometrics and data analytics.
  • Empirical economics studies experiences from research assistant, meanwhile studied programming such as C++ and R with basic knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
  • Activities: TEDx NationalTaiwanUniversity, NTU Art festival, NTU Student Association of College of Social Science

Meiji University

Exchange student of SPSE

2018 - 2019

  • Student of the Meiji University's SPSE program.
  • Japanese language courses for 200+ hours and passed the JLPT N1 in two semesters.
  • Volunteered for the language cafe and language exchange activities.
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