Bo Chen
VP Of Engineering at Liftoff Mobile
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBo Chen is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of software experience, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Liftoff in Mountain View where he supports Creative Engineering and core platform teams. He progressed from software development roles at Microsoft to tech lead at Ooyala, bringing a solid track record of shipping full-stack systems and improving developer workflows. Bo also contributes to open-source projects like Ooyala’s barkeep code-review tool, where he implemented diff views, comment models, and authentication—showing a penchant for improving collaboration and code quality. With a formal background in Computer Science and Communication Engineering from the University of Melbourne and experience building teams and systems across startups and large organizations, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership. An engineer who still dives into front- and back-end code, Bo blends product-focused judgment with practical implementation to accelerate delivery and developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Carnegie Mellon UniversityThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
coffeescript10
autocomplete9
sinatra8
css8
html8
ruby8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ooyala/barkeep
Jul 2011 - Apr 2015
The friendly code review system.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:88 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bo primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end functionality of a code review system. Their work included adding features to display line numbers in diff views and refactoring diff-related functions. They also added models for comments and implemented server-side support for handling and displaying comments in the diff view. Furthermore, the user worked on authentication and integrating a side-by-side view for easier review.
reviewsemgrep
bo-chen/terraforming-mars
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Terraforming Mars Boardgame
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 21 days
marsterraformingboardgameterraformterraform-provider
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