Jimmy Chen
About Jimmy Chen
Jimmy Chen is a Senior Software Engineer at Komodo Health in San Francisco, specializing in backend systems and data engineering.
Current Position at Komodo Health
Jimmy Chen serves as a Senior Software Engineer at Komodo Health in San Francisco, California. In this role, he works on the Data Platform/Search Team, where he organizes medical data and creates REST APIs to display this data. His work involves the use of various technologies including Python, Flask, Celery, Redis, Apache Airflow, Snowflake, AWS Dynamo DB, Terraform, AWS EC2, and AWS RDS.
Previous Experience at Walmart Global Tech
Jimmy Chen worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech from 2017 to 2021 in Sunnyvale, California. During his tenure, he was part of the Marketplace Team, focused on the catalog team that organizes and maintains Walmart's item data. He applied his skills in Java, Kafka Messaging, Cassandra Databases, Microservices, Streaming Architecture, Distributed Systems, Big Data, REST Services, and Spring Boot. Chen also published articles on Medium detailing cost orchestration and performance enhancements he implemented.
Initial Roles at Ricoh USA, Inc.
At Ricoh USA, Inc., Jimmy Chen held the position of Software Engineer from 2016 to 2017 in Boulder, Colorado. Prior to this, he completed a Software Engineer Internship at the same company from 2014 to 2015. These roles marked the beginning of his career in software engineering and provided foundational experience in the field.
Education and Technical Expertise
Jimmy Chen studied Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, achieving a Bachelor's of Engineering from 2012 to 2015. He has specialized expertise in backend systems and data engineering, particularly in platform software, microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, Java, Python, Kafka, and streaming architecture.
Notable Projects and Publications
Jimmy Chen has contributed to several significant projects and publications. At Komodo Health, he architected and designed a role-based authentication system enabling single sign-on across multiple applications. He also played a role in Komodo Health's healthcare map, which consists of the patient journeys of more than 320 million patients. Additionally, Chen developed a grocery market watch project accessible at https://grocerymarketwatch.com.