Bo Chen
Co-Founder at Xendit
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBo Chen is a seasoned founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-focused infrastructure and payment systems across startups and crypto. Based in Mountain View, he co-founded and served as CTO of Xendit, helping scale one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing fintech platforms before continuing as Co-Founder to drive product and engineering strategy. His hands-on background spans full-stack development, devops, and protocol-level work—highlighted by contributions to the xrpl.js library where he implemented nuanced transaction fee handling and order-book logic for the XRP Ledger. Early roles at Ripple and multiple startups show a pattern of shipping pragmatic, production-grade systems and turning complex financial flows into reliable APIs. He combines YC-founder grit with Berkeley-trained technical depth and a track record of open-source collaboration in payments and blockchain tooling.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh school diploma, High school diploma at Wootton High School
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
js10
javascript10
xrp10
typescripts10
api10
typescript-types10
blockchain9
cryptocurrency9
nodejs9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
XRPLF/xrpl.js
Nov 2014 - May 2015
A JavaScript/TypeScript API for interacting with the XRP Ledger in Node.js and the browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 12 PRs, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Bo primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the `xrpl.js` library, as evidenced by the modifications to `Transaction` and `TransactionManager` classes. Their work involved implementing features related to transaction fees, including setting maximum and fixed fees, and adapting the code to account for XRP delivered amounts. Furthermore, the user made changes to the remote and order book functionalities.
rippleapibrowserjavascriptnodejscryptocurrencies
boxbag/tasks-cli
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Highly opinionated command line task manager for people who want to make an impact and scale themselves
Contributions:138 commits, 1 PR, 108 pushes in 2 years
scaletask-managementtaskwarriortask-managercommand-line
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