Alex Chen

New York, NY
AWS Certified Data Engineer with 2+ years of experience

I'm a data engineer & CUNY alum. I love solving problems in the data space and building cool things. I enjoy learning new things and seeing how they can be applied to real-world problems. If you need someone with the skills and curiosity to tackle your data problems, give me a shout at itsalexchen@gmail.com

* what i'm working on

Last updated on 2025-02-08

Currently I'm continuing to develop my knowledge and skills in building scalable and cost-effective data solutions in both hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments. I'm also working on a few side projects that I'm excited to share soon!

* experiences

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Tech Fellow (June 2023 - Dec 2024)

Spearheaded the development and implementation of scalable and cost-effective data solutions in a hybrid cloud environment to simplify transit operations

Develop for Good

Software Engineer (Apr 2023 - Aug 2023)

Collaborated with a team of developers to build a data pipeline to simplify and reduce operational costs for a non-profit

The City University of New York

Energy Technology Intern (Jul 2022 - Aug 2022)

Developed automation tools to simplify operational workflows to support data-driven decision making

The Urban Assembly

Operations & Data Intern (Mar 2022 - May 2022)

Analyzed records across 3 departments, providing actionable insights to optimize resource allocation for individual schools

* certifications

AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate

* projects

NYC Taxi Trip Data Pipeline

Developed a data pipeline that processes and analyzes NYC taxi trip data from 2019 using Databricks, Apache Spark, and Delta Lake

Wikipedia Information Retrieval System

Developed a information retrieval system that uses the vector space model to rank Wikipedia documents based on a query

all projects

* links

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