CV
Basics
| Name | Sotheara Chea |
| Title | Software Engineer |
| Url | https://www.linkedin.com/in/chea |
| Summary | Software engineer building event-driven systems that scale. Passionate about distributed systems, cloud architecture, and solving complex problems through elegant code. |
Work
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06/2022 - PRESENT Software Engineer
Travelers Insurance
Building event-driven automation platforms processing 5M+ tasks/year for underwriting and support teams.
- Architected event-driven automation platform processing 5M+ tasks/year, reducing processing times by 15%
- Built high-throughput Kafka data pipeline on AWS EKS replicating 40,000 events/min with 99.9% reliability
- Designed RESTful microservices using TypeScript, Node.js, and Docker enabling 3 external systems integration
- Achieved 90%+ code coverage across 5 microservices using Jest and Mocha
- Configured and managed 6+ Kafka topics supporting real-time event streaming for workflow progression
- Deployed Istio service mesh to 2 production EKS clusters for improved observability and zero-downtime deployments
- Mentored 2 junior engineers through code reviews and pair programming
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06/2021 - 08/2021 Business Insights and Analytics Intern
Travelers Insurance
Built analytics dashboard and competed in coding competitions.
- Built Qlik dashboard integrating ETL framework data for business leaders
- Competed in Python coding competition developing game tournament algorithm
Education
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Willimantic, Connecticut
B.S.
Eastern Connecticut State University
Business Information Systems & Finance
- Algorithms & Data Structures
- Web Development
- Database Management
- Investment Analysis
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Urbana, Illinois
M.S.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer Science
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning in Healthcare
- Data Visualization
- Cloud Computing Applications
Skills
| Programming Languages | |
| TypeScript | |
| JavaScript | |
| Python | |
| Java | |
| SQL |
| Backend & Frameworks | |
| Node.js | |
| Express.js | |
| FastAPI | |
| RESTful API | |
| Microservices |
| Frontend | |
| React | |
| HTML5 | |
| CSS |
| Databases & Data Tools | |
| PostgreSQL | |
| MongoDB | |
| Oracle | |
| DynamoDB | |
| Pandas |
| Cloud & DevOps | |
| AWS (Lambda, S3, API Gateway, SQS, EKS) | |
| Docker | |
| Kubernetes | |
| GitHub Actions | |
| CI/CD |
| Tools & Practices | |
| Git | |
| Kafka | |
| Jest | |
| Mocha | |
| Agile/Scrum | |
| Jira | |
| Istio |