Zachary Chen
Software Engineer at Personal
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Chen is a San Francisco-based software engineer with eight years of experience delivering scalable mobile and backend solutions. He currently contributes to Yelp's Growth team, building data-driven features that accelerate user engagement and expansion. In his personal projects, he develops end-to-end iOS apps in Swift—such as a travel planner using MVVM with Firestore and an analytics SDK that auto-tracks user interactions—demonstrating mastery of programmatic UI, concurrency, and memory management. His background also spans entrepreneurship and compliance-focused work, including co-founding Plexit Technologies and delivering AML tooling for Koi Trading and HBUS. With a finance degree from Pepperdine and a strong self-study drive in algorithms and data structures, he combines analytical discipline with a relentless curiosity to learn and improve.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Finance, Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Finance, Cum Laude at Pepperdine UniversityFudan University
English, Chinese, Chinese, Spanish, knowledge of korean
Github Skills (2)
javascript9
open-source9
Github contributions (5)
sachofpotatoes/zachenn.github.io
Jan 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
zachenn/Tern-Travel-App
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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