BENJAMIN SUN
Customer Obsession, Invent and Simplify, Highest Standards
E-mail: ********@*****.***
Phone: 650-***-****
Sunnyvale, CA
SUMMARY
Passion for customers, system design expertise, management skills, and startup spirits. Leveraging technology to solve business problems. Certified AWS Cloud Solution Architect and Scrum Master with consulting experience for Fortune 500 companies. Acquired and managed top customers to win unprecedented earnings and revenues. Architect and build suites of products in fulfillment, API, order management, ERP, and E-Commerce products. Management experience up to 70 people, $20 million revenue, and P&L. CORE COMPETENCIES
§ 15 years of Software full-stack development, Cloud and distributed system design, Agile/Scrum, Web technology
§ Certified AWS Cloud Solution Architect and Scrum Master
§ Consulting and system design for Fortune 500 companies such as VISA, HP, E-Trade, DHL, British Telecom, etc.
§ 9 years of software engineering management experience
§ 3 years in managing and growing multiple small teams including engineering, sales/marketing, product, and offshore
§ Extensive design and architect knowledge in E-Commerce, ERP, API, Fulfillment, CRM, CMS, SDLC, and distributed processing
§ Spearheaded the engagement among sales/marketing, executives, and key customers
§ Startup spirits to fast/fail/forward, wear multiple hats, and leverage technology to solve business problems
§ Operational know-hows including M&A, dual diligence, accounting, sales, break even, and growth hacking
§ Proficiency in managing 70 people with responsibility for $20 million revenue and P&L TECHICAL STRENGTH
§ Distributed System Design: High Availability, High Scalability, Streaming, Consistency, Security, Performance, SQL/NoSQL, MongoDB, Spark, Kafka, Memcache, Redis
§ Agile Development: Full-stack development, Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, Node.js, Angular 5/6, Lambda, RDS, JAVA/Spring, Micro Services, Oracle/MySQL, Mobile-First, DynamoDB, RedShift, iOS, three.js, Jira, TDD, BDD, RSpec, mocha, chai, protractor, selenium, NativeScript
§ Application: E-Commerce, API, Print on Demand, ERP, CMS, CRM, SEO/SEM, Online Education, Online Personalization, OLTP, Shopify, WordPress/WooCommerce, Spree, QuickBooks, Alexa, AWS IOT
§ Data & Infrastructure: Cloud Computing, AWS, EC2, VPC, ECS, RabbitMQ, SaaS, Microservices, PaaS, ElasticSearch, Solr, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Spark, Big data, Business Intelligence
§ Language: Ruby, Javascript, JAVA/J2EE, PHP, Python, Scala, C/C++, SVG, HTML/CSS, Swift, Unix/Shell, Perl WORKING Solution EXPERIENCE Architect / Engineering Manager, Photo USA Corp. Fremont, CA 07/2011 ~ Present
§ Empowered and grew multiple small teams including engineering, IT, sales, marketing, and product
§ Spearheaded critical projects and operations for unprecedented $2 million earnings on $20 million revenue
§ Collaborated with sales team for top customers including Zazzle and VistaPrint to win strategic fulfillment projects with multi-year, multi-million contracts
§ Managed all online B2C/B2B properties including VivoPrint.com, Photomugs.com, imagineyourphotos.com and Photousacorp.com with CI/CD in AWS cloud
§ Led the online personalization, e-Commerce, 3D builder, order management system, production and fulfillment system, QuickBooks integration, Cloud, Mobile App, and pro-sales chat bots.
§ Built Fulfillment API, Order management System and API, ERP, 24/7 production processing and automation, including architecture design, Scrum development, QA, security, deployment, and performance tuning. Application Architect / Engineering Manager, HotChalk Inc., CA 06/2009 ~ 06/2011
§ Agilely developed crucial projects to help online Higher Education revenue grow $18 millions in 18 months
§ Built critical student relationship management (SRM) system to funnel the lead conversion with Ruby on Rails
§ Spearheaded intelligent call routing for SRM system to shorten response time from 15 minutes to 2 minutes
§ Migrated to Amazon EC2 in one month with application redundancy and replication
§ Optimized LeadGen, DFP/OpenX, and landing pages
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Chief Technologist and co-founder, ChatAny Inc., Sunnyvale, CA 08/2005 ~ 05/2009
§ Web 2.0, Online Meetup, Interactive Social, 50K members, Ruby On Rails
§ Provided Javascript API for managing online rooms and items running inside any browser
§ Itu.edu – Built online student course management with Ruby on Rails. Generate $15MM new revenue.
§ FoodBuzz.com - Social dining and recipe sharing, Rails performance tuning
§ 8greens.com – Ruby on rails, online B2B, B2C E-Commerce
§ Winvivo.com - Online green health, Joomla CMS
Chief Software Architect, Knight Ridder Digital, San Jose, CA 11/2001 ~ 07/2005
§ Led the technology for the company with 60 Websites, 24MM Unique Visitors, and 350MM Page Views.
§ Developed CMS technology for MercuryNews.com, Cars.com, Apartments.com, CareerBuilder.com, and 60 web properties.
§ Supervised all application architecture, performance, scalability, security, and logging
§ Established full life cycle release process, coding standard, and review process Senior Consultant, Oracle/BEA Systems, San Jose, CA 06/1996 ~ 11/2001
§ Provided consultation on BEA WebLogic, Portal, Tuxedo, e-Commerce HP, DHL, VISA, E-Trade, BT/MCI, etc.
§ Engaged in MCI world com’s distributed IP allocation project - $500K - $750K annual consulting and licensing EDUCATION
Master’s degree in Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Bachelor of Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan CERTIFICATE
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA) Professional Scrum Master I (Scrum.org)
Machine Learning, Data Science, and Deep Learning with Spark 2 and Tensor Flow (Udemy 3 certifications) Advanced Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and MicroServices (Udemy 2 certifications) TEACHING
“Web Programming with Ruby on Rails” @ International Technology University, San Jose, CA PUBLICATION
“CStalk: Distributed On-line Transaction Processing for Banking System Integration,” 3rd International Conference on System Integration, IEEE HOBBIES
Love to try anything at least once
Swimming, basketball, movie, skiing, reading
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