Alex Chen

alex@example.com•(555) 246-8101•Austin, TX•alexchen.io

Junior CS student at UT Austin seeking summer 2025 SDE internship. Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures at Amazon and Meta. Strong foundation in algorithms and distributed systems coursework.

Education

The University of Texas at Austin—Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | GPA: 3.75 / 4.0

Austin, TX|Aug 2021 – May 2025

Experience

Amazon—SDE Intern

Seattle, WA|Jun 2024 – Aug 2024

Built a content-recommendation microservice for Prime Video using Java and DynamoDB, serving 8M+ users.
Reduced P99 recommendation latency by 20% (250 ms → 200 ms) through DynamoDB query optimisation and an ElastiCache caching layer.
Authored CloudFormation templates for automated infrastructure provisioning, cutting deployment time from 2 hours to 15 minutes.

Meta—Software Engineer Intern

Menlo Park, CA|Jun 2023 – Aug 2023

Developed an internal data-pipeline monitoring tool using React and GraphQL, surfacing SLA violations to on-call engineers in real time.
Reduced mean time to detection (MTTD) for pipeline failures by 35% by adding structured alerting on top of Meta's internal observability stack.

Projects

CampusEats — Food Ordering Platform—TypeScript · React · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Stripe

|2024

Campus food-ordering platform connecting 12 local restaurants with UT Austin students; 600+ orders processed in the first month.
Stripe integration for payments; real-time order-status updates via Server-Sent Events.

TinyKV — Key-Value Store—Go · Raft

|2023

Distributed key-value store with Raft-based replication and linearisable reads built as a systems programming course project.
Passes all correctness tests including leader election, log replication, and membership changes.

Skills

Languages:Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, SQL, C++

Frameworks & Libraries:React, Node.js, GraphQL, Spring Boot, Express

Cloud & Tools:AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, ElastiCache, CloudFormation), Docker, Git, PostgreSQL, Redis

Alex Chen• 4h ago

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Comments

2 responses

aws_angel12h ago

Prime Video is one of Amazon's most demanding systems — good signal for future employers. The latency improvement is a solid bullet. Try to add the before/after numbers (e.g. 'reduced p99 latency from 250ms to 200ms').

new_grad_nina4d ago

Great internship for a UT Austin student. Serverless architecture is hot right now. Would love to see a projects or coursework section to fill out the resume a bit more.