Go Backend Engineer

Corey Chen

Building scalable microservices with Go.

Architecting distributed systems from database to gateway to real-time communication.

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11
services
80+
tables
462
RPC endpoints
61
Kafka topics
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Focus Area

Go Microservices & Distributed Systems

Experience

2+ years production backend

System Scale

11 services, 80+ tables, 462 RPC endpoints

Current Interest

AI-Assisted Development (Vibe Coding)

Projects

Case studies of microservices I've designed and built.

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Open Source

Tools, skills, and projects I share with the community.

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Experience

Work history and education background.

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$ cat experience.md

About

Who I am, how I work, and what I use.

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$ cat about.md

Blog

Notes on engineering, systems, and travel.

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$ ls ./blog/

Featured Work

Selected Projects

Core Platform

Users System

Core user management with multi-tier authentication and caching

15 tables

Go go-zero gRPC MySQL/GORM Redis +2
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Core Platform

API Gateway

Custom middleware stack with security, observability, and caching

Go Gin Redis OpenTelemetry Jaeger +2
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Core Platform

WebSocket Service

Real-time bidirectional communication with cross-pod broadcasting

Go go-zero WebSocket Redis Kafka
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Let's Connect

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