Anthony Chen
Staff Software Engineer at Definitive Finance
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Chen is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and operating high-throughput backend systems, currently building trading infrastructure at Definitive Finance after five years at Coinbase. He specializes in distributed systems, trade execution, and institutional integrations using Go, gRPC, Postgres, and Kafka, with prior production experience in Node, Elixir, and Rails. As a founding member of Lob’s print-and-mail team he led an Elixir library and helped launch core backend APIs, showing a pattern of shipping critical infrastructure from early-stage product to scale. Anthony combines practical product-facing front-end work from his Goodreads days with deep backend expertise, enabling him to bridge UX-driven features and low-latency services. Based in San Francisco and trained at Cornell, he pairs research curiosity—past work in evolutionary algorithms and BCI—with a pragmatic focus on reliability and performance. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful system design and steady execution under the demands of trading and production services.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High Technology High SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Cornell University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (95)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
itsachen/EmoRecord
Aug 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:15 commits in 6 months
itsachen/itsachen.github.io
Mar 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:7 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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