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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

  • 06/2022 - PRESENT
    Software Engineer
    Travelers Insurance
    Building event-driven automation platforms processing 5M+ tasks/year for underwriting and support teams.
    • Developed Java and TypeScript/Node.js microservices for an event-driven automation platform processing 5M+ tasks/year, reducing processing times by 15% for 200+ business users
    • Built high-throughput Kafka pipeline on AWS EKS replicating 40,000 events/min with Confluent Replicator connectors, monitoring, and fault tolerance ensuring 99.9% reliability
    • Designed and shipped RESTful task creation microservice (TypeScript, Node.js, Docker, MongoDB) enabling 3 external systems to create and route tasks, processing 5K+ API requests/day
    • Automated task creation pipeline using Java, increasing systematic task creation from 0% to 92% and eliminating manual workload for operations teams
    • Architected full-stack Triage Knowledge Base using React, TypeScript, and MongoDB, enabling users to resolve issues 30% faster through intuitive search
    • Achieved 90%+ code coverage across 10 microservices using Jest and Mocha
    • 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
  • 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

  • Willimantic, Connecticut

    B.S.
    Eastern Connecticut State University
    Business Information Systems & Finance
    • Algorithms & Data Structures
    • Web Development
    • Database Management
    • Investment Analysis

  • 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