Allen Shen
Staff Software Engineer at Coupang
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAllen Shen is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Jose with 13 years of experience building large-scale systems in search, ads ranking, and recommendation. Currently at Coupang, he blends deep backend expertise—Oracle, Spark, Bash—with a strong computer science foundation (First Class B.Sc.) and advanced CS studies. He’s known for turning data-intensive problems into production-grade services that improve relevance and monetization. Allen’s background spans mobile apps to distributed data processing, and he brings practical knowledge from both YC business studies and graduate-level CS work. Colleagues appreciate his ability to bridge research-informed approaches with pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Notably, his GitHub focus on ranking and recommendation reflects a consistent career emphasis on personalization at scale.
13 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information and Computing Science, First Class, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information and Computing Science, First Class at University of LiverpoolBusiness/Commerce, General, Business/Commerce, General at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information and Computing Science, First Class, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information and Computing Science, First Class at Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
148reputation
12kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (142)
interpretation10
python10
deep-learning10
solidity10
ml10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
plug10
deep-neural-networks10
firefox9
team-project9
sink9
security9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
CyberMiles/education
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:46 commits, 34 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
shenzhun/creating-enron-spam-corpus-from-raw-data
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:48 commits in 1 month
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