Houchi Chan

ch.01 / about

Redmond, WA

I work on the stuff that signs you in.

Software Engineer at Microsoft

I'm an engineer on Azure MFA. Most of what I do touches the auth path for every Azure sign-in, so the job is mostly about not breaking things, very carefully, at scale.

Before this I interned at Amazon twice and spent a year at a small climate startup called Chloris. I graduated from Boston University in May 2025.

Outside of work I tinker with side projects, mess with old hardware, and read way too many postmortems. This site is one of those tinker projects.

If you want to talk shop or just say hi, the contact channel works.

Languages

C# · TypeScript · Python · Go · Java · C++ · OCaml · SQL

Cloud

Azure · AWS Lambda · Docker · Linux · CI/CD

Data

Cosmos DB · DynamoDB · PostgreSQL · MongoDB

Web

React · Next.js · Node.js · .NET

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