Backend & Infrastructure Engineer
Cheuk-Wang Chau
(Vincent)
Backend & Infrastructure Engineer with 4+ years of production experience across cloud platform engineering, IoT systems, and enterprise backend development. Owns AWS infrastructure end-to-end at an AI-driven IoT company. AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Fluent in English and Japanese (JLPT-N1). Based in Houston, TX.
★ AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
◎ CompTIA Security+ (In Progress)
Experience
Aug 2025 — Now
Mode Inc.
Solutions Engineer
- Own AWS infrastructure end-to-end — ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SNS, OpsGenie — including alerting pipelines, on-call runbooks, and cost optimization
- Build and ship peripheral device drivers in Go for IoT hardware integrations
- Manage Terraform IaC across environments with full CI/CD automation
- Developing an MCP server to expose internal tooling and data to LLM-powered workflows
- Serve as technical point of contact, translating customer requirements into backend and infrastructure design
Go
ECS
Lambda
DynamoDB
Terraform
CloudWatch
SNS
OpsGenie
Sep 2023 — Jul 2025
System I Co.
Software Engineer
- Built a mobile banking application with Angular, Spring Boot, and AWS — Spring Batch jobs for S3 access, data encryption, and push notifications via SNS
- Contributed to a Japanese government financial institution project (Java/Struts, OracleDB) — independently designed large file upload/download across backend and frontend
- Developed a proof-of-concept mock API for a new client using Spring Boot and OpenAPI
Java
Spring Boot
Angular
AWS
OracleDB
Apr 2022 — Aug 2023
Humming Heads
Software Engineer
- Maintained and extended a C++ cybersecurity product; used SysInternals Suite, Spy++, and WinDbg to analyze Windows API behavior and identify vulnerabilities
- Researched external software behaviors via Windows API analysis and proposed interception solutions to mitigate data leakage
C++
Windows API
SysInternals
WinDbg
Skills
Languages
Go · TypeScript/JavaScript · Java · C/C++ · C# · SQL · Bash
Cloud & Infra
AWS ECS · Lambda · DynamoDB · S3 · SNS · CloudWatch · Terraform · Docker
Backend
REST APIs · Spring Boot · IoT drivers · MCP server
Observability
CloudWatch · OpsGenie · Alerting · Incident response
Frontend
Angular · React · Vue.js
Human Languages
English (native) · Japanese (JLPT-N1)
Certifications & Education
Apr. 2025
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
In Progress
CompTIA
Security+ SY0-701
May 2020
University of Houston
B.S. Computer Science, Minor: Mathematics
Contact
Open to backend and infrastructure roles. Based in Houston, TX — available for remote. Feel free to reach out.
Email cheukwang.chau@gmail.com LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/cheuk-wang-chau-923349361 GitHub github.com/vincent-chau-1259