About

Carmen Kwan is an experienced software engineer with a passion for exploring open-ended problems related to scalability and performance. Currently working as a Security and Distributed System Engineer at trustpoint innovation technologies, ltd., Carmen has gained expertise in backend, infrastructure, databases, compilers, and research development. In her previous roles as a Software Developer at Auvik Networks Inc. and SAP, Carmen designed OpenAPI specifications, improved inter-process communication between microservices, and optimized metadata designs to reduce false positive rates. She also resolved production issues related to supporting SNMP data collection, avoiding thread blocks, and preventing runtime exceptions. Carmen holds a degree in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo and has gained relevant experience of 2.19 years. She is skilled in using technologies such as Spark, Scala, Python, and Databricks. Carmen's GitHub page showcases some of her notable projects, including implementing email confirmations with authentication tokens to improve spam filtering in a Java J2EE server and implementing HTTP request load balancing using HAProxy and Docker containers on VMs hosted by Google Cloud. Carmen is looking for opportunities to challenge herself and further develop her skills as a software engineer. She is a self-motivated individual who enjoys collaborating with others to achieve common goals.