Andrew Chen is a software engineering manager with over a decade of experience building and scaling enterprise platforms, currently leading engineering at Meta after a long tenure managing distributed security services at AWS. He has deep expertise in designing and operating mission-critical, globally distributed systems—most recently owning AWS Firewall Manager across 36 regions—and a strong track record of growing and hiring high-performing teams in Seattle. Past roles include architecting large Java transformations and DevOps practices that delivered multi-million dollar revenue and dramatic performance improvements for automotive and finance clients. He combines hands-on engineering roots (early career technical lead at IBM) with strategic product and pre-sales influence, having driven product expansions into multiple international markets. Notably, he’s comfortable single-threading ownership of complex services while also mentoring teams to adopt best practices that boost velocity and reduce defects. Based in Seattle with advanced degrees in computer science, he blends production-grade cloud expertise with a pragmatic focus on operational reliability and customer impact.
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Andrew Chen - Software Engineering Manager at Meta