Maya Chen

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

• TypeScript
• Java
• PostgreSQL
• Kafka
• AWS

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Ledgerway · 2022 — Present

   Led the settlement service rewrite and reduced reconciliation exceptions by tightening event contracts.

2. 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

Certifications

• AWS Certified Developer

Projects

• Exception desk

  Internal tool for operators to inspect failed payment events without engineering intervention.