About

Ken Chen is a highly skilled software development professional with over 12 years of experience in software design, development, and integration. He is a software engineer, web developer, application developer, full-stack developer, and frontend/backend developer with an analytical and detail-oriented mindset. Ken promotes object-oriented approaches to real-time software development and quickly masters new software tools and technologies. Currently working as a Software Engineer - Azure development at Microsoft, Ken has extensive experience building client-facing websites using Angular 4 and Microsoft Stack C#. He has worked with technologies such as ASP.Net Core 1.0 and 2.0, Entity Framework, LINQ, WebAPI, SQL Server, Webpack, gulp, systemJS, Bootstrap, CSS3, HTML5, and GIT. Ken has also built several windows applications using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), WinForm, C#, LINQ, and Entity Framework. Before becoming a software engineer, Ken was an IT professional with extensive experience in scripting languages like Perl. He is always open to discussing opportunities in which he can help personally or professionally. Ken's past experience includes working as a Software Engineer - Web & Application Fullstack at Vizient, Inc. where he worked closely with clients and web design firms to establish problem specifications, system designs, project timelines, and estimated costs for developing enterprise-level websites. He designed, implemented, and deployed a customer-facing website using ASP.net core 2 (Rest Web Api), Angular4, bootstrap4, CSS3, LESS, HTML5, SQL Server, and IIS. Ken also developed data analytic applications for Environmentally Preferred Products that involved data loading, mining, and reporting using C#, .Net, WPF, SQL Server, and Entity Framework. Ken also has experience working as a Software Engineer - Web Frontend at Roofstock, where he developed frontend web pages for the company's website using ember, javascript, and jquery under MVC structure. He organized CSS using customized HTML5 tags under SASS structure and developed backend support for the website using C# under MVC structure. Ken holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics from the University of California, Davis, and a Master's degree in Computer Science from San Jose State University. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, Web, Backend, Azure, SQL, Frontend, dotNET, ASP.NET, Integration, test, AngularJS, and Javascript. With 18.19 years of relevant experience, Ken is a valuable asset to any software development team.