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CV -- Riley Chen

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Email: riley@example.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rileychen-sa Portfolio: rileychen.architecture GitHub: github.com/rileychen-examples

Professional Summary

Solutions architect with 8 years turning complex enterprise requirements into secure, operable designs. Partnered with sales and customer engineering on AI and automation platforms: discovery workshops, reference architectures, and production cutovers. Comfortable from C-level roadmaps to API contracts, identity, and cost guardrails.

Work Experience

Northbridge Systems BV -- Amsterdam, Netherlands

Principal Solutions Architect 2020-2025

  • Led technical discovery for Fortune 500 accounts: mapped data flows, compliance boundaries, and integration points; produced solution blueprints aligned to procurement and InfoSec review cycles
  • Owned end-to-end POC playbooks for LLM-assisted workflows (retrieval, guardrails, human-in-the-loop): cut average POC cycle from roughly 8 weeks to 4 through reusable templates and sandbox environments
  • Partnered with product on roadmap input from the field; influenced API versioning strategy and multi-tenant isolation model for a SaaS automation suite
  • Ran architecture reviews for partner-built connectors; published internal standards for OAuth scopes, webhook reliability, and observability (structured logging, trace propagation)
  • Mentored 5 solutions engineers on storytelling, risk registers, and handoff packages for implementation teams

Meridian Cloud Ltd -- Remote (EMEA)

Senior Solutions Architect 2016-2020

  • Designed hybrid integrations (on-prem ERP, cloud IAM, event buses) for regulated customers in finance and logistics
  • Produced high-level and low-level designs for batch and near-real-time pipelines; coordinated with SRE on capacity plans and DR exercises
  • Supported RFP responses and security questionnaires; translated non-functional requirements into testable acceptance criteria

Projects

  • integration-patterns (Internal playbook, anonymized excerpts) -- Catalog of idempotent webhooks, saga-style compensations, and backoff strategies; reused across 20+ customer engagements
  • architecture-office-hours (Community) -- Monthly office hours for practitioners on threat modeling lightweight SaaS integrations

Education

  • MSc Information Systems, University of Amsterdam (2015)
  • BSc Computer Science, University of Twente (2013)

Skills

  • Architecture: C4-style diagrams, ADRs, NFR matrices, threat modeling (STRIDE-lite), vendor evaluation
  • Cloud & platforms: AWS and Azure (networking, IAM, Kubernetes basics), API gateways, event-driven designs
  • Data & AI (practitioner level): Vector search concepts, RAG patterns, model-serving constraints, privacy and retention tradeoffs
  • Collaboration: Workshop facilitation, executive summaries, sales engineering partnership, post-sales handoffs