Kevin Chen is a software engineer closing on a decade of experience ranging from government contracts, ride-hailing, virtual reality, and two-sided childcare marketplaces. He’s currently working with others on Teaching Strategies’ newly-chartered Platform team. His current interest is in the correctness of distributed workflows in service-oriented architectures. Outside of work, you can find him enjoying tennis, CrossFit, and the occasional powder day.
Our education platform has relied on an outdated monolithic legacy application for years. It’s an outdated system built of a single service layer on top of a database designed for use cases ...