Ben Chen
Engineering Manager at Figma
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Chen is an engineering manager based in New York with 13 years of experience building product-focused teams and shipping customer-facing software across startups and established companies. Currently leading AI product efforts at Figma, he has driven initiatives from founding-engineer product builds to managing cross-functional teams that improve user activation and onboarding. At Assemble he wore multiple hats—founding engineer, product & engineering manager, and short-term Head of Engineering—demonstrating a knack for scaling engineering organizations and moving quickly between strategy and code. Previously at Intercom and Yahoo he combined product thinking with hands-on implementation across mobile and web, including Android, onboarding systems, and growth-focused features. Known for blending strong technical chops with people leadership, he often steps into product roles to close the loop between customer needs and execution.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Lehigh University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (78)
chartjs-plugin9
chartjs8
mongodb8
typescript8
nodejs8
editor7
javascript7
database7
electron7
vscode-extension7
microsoft7
vscode7
visual-studio6
postgresql6
reusability6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
heybenchen/wavelength
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
A web version of the board game Wavelength.
Contributions:14 PRs, 76 pushes, 15 branches in 5 months
wavelengthboard-gamegameboard
intercom/optimal-select
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Get efficient & robust CSS selectors for HTML elements
Contributions:4 releases, 9 commits, 11 pushes in 2 days
selectorselementscsscss-selectorshtml-elements
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