Caitlyn Chen
Software Engineer II at Rippling
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaitlyn Chen is a Software Engineer II based in the New York City area with 11 years of experience building reliable systems across risk engineering, revenue/financial tooling, and safety support at companies like Rippling, Stripe, and Amazon Robotics. She blends practical product experience with strong technical chops—contributing to open-source data-visualization tooling (lux) that helps automatically visualize pandas DataFrames and improving Altair-based plotting behavior. A Columbia CS graduate with minors in applied math and entrepreneurship, Caitlyn has taught AI courses and led cohort-based ML instruction, demonstrating an ability to translate complex concepts for large and diverse audiences. Her background includes venture and investment roles, giving her a rare cross-functional fluency between engineering, product, and business strategy. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions in fast-paced environments, she pairs data-driven thinking with a curiosity for visualization and tooling that makes analytics more accessible. Outside core engineering work she maintains a public-facing passion portfolio at caitlynchen.com, signaling an interest in sharing knowledge and projects.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Spence SchoolNumber Theory, Number Theory at PROMYS (Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists)Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Minors in Applied Math and Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Minors in Applied Math and Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Columbia UniversitySHP (Columbia University Science Honors Program)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
pandas10
visualization10
exploratory-data-analysis10
visualizations10
altair10
python10
data-science10
jupyter9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lux-org/lux
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Automatically visualize your pandas dataframe via a single print! đź“Š đź’ˇ
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:31 reviews, 29 commits, 33 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Caitlyn's commits primarily focus on enhancing the visualization capabilities of the lux-org/lux repository, a tool for automatically visualizing pandas dataframes. The contributions involve modifying and adding features related to plotting histograms and scatter plots within the Altair visualization library. They also include implementing and adjusting features to correctly render bar charts.
data-analysispythondata-sciencedataframevisualize
caitlynachen/Recipesimport
Jul 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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