Brian Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale backend systems, currently driving Ads Targeting, Audiences and Platform work at Reddit. He has led community and interest targeting as a tech lead and previously designed globally scalable player platform solutions at Riot Games, working across Java and Go microservices for permissions, playtest cohorts, and deployment/patching infrastructure. Based in Vancouver and trained at the University of Toronto, he combines strong production engineering with teaching experience from multiple CS courses, which informs his preference for clear APIs and maintainable systems. Outside product work he maintains a public engineering presence (byxchen.com) and focuses on dependable, privacy-conscious ad targeting platforms that balance performance with developer ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Woburn Collegiate InstituteHonors Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Honors Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Toronto
French, Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
website-development9
aws8
terraform7
testing7
terraform-provider6
terraform-module4
data-structures2
flv1
python1
java1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
00benallen/TrashSmash
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 62 pushes in 10 days
byxchen/byxchen.github.io
Feb 2016 - Mar 2022
Website for personal projects and website development testing
Contributions:564 commits, 2 PRs, 541 pushes in 6 years 1 month
website-developmenttestingpersonal-projects
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