Maya Chen

Senior Software Engineer, distributed systems

Chicago, ILHybrid8 yearsAvailable now

Summary

Backend engineer focused on payments, event-driven systems, and production ownership. I like working close to operational reality — latency, correctness, and the interfaces other teams depend on.

Skills

TypeScriptPrimaryintermediate
JavaPrimaryintermediate
PostgreSQLintermediate
Kafkaintermediate
AWSintermediate

Primary skills

TypeScript
Java

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Ledgerway · 2022 — Present
Led the settlement service rewrite and reduced reconciliation exceptions by tightening event contracts.
Software Engineer
Harborline Bank · 2018 — 2022
Built internal APIs for treasury operations and introduced structured logging across core services.

Education

B.S. Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2018