Jon Chen
Los Angeles, CA
github.com/bsdlp
sjchen@sjchen.com
Software Engineer (Auth) at Twitch
February 2021 - March 2023
  • Designed authentication service operating at over 1 million requests per second
  • Led team of 6 engineers to execute on refactoring authentication service
  • Redefined how first party and third party applications authenticate to Twitch
  • Scaled up Twitch's identity platform for high throughput and high visibility partner events
Software Engineer (Identity) at Twitch
January 2020 - February 2021
  • Worked on security and operational improvements across Twitch services
Software Engineer (Security) at Twitch
January 2017 - January 2020
  • Tech lead on service to service auth product
  • Tech lead on employee user auth service
  • Major contributor to secrets management system
Software Engineer (Systems Engineering) at Twitch
January 2015 - January 2017
  • Migrated Twitch from bare metal to AWS