Changan Chen
Engineering Manager at TikTok
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolChangan Chen is an engineering manager based in Mountain View with 10 years of hands-on experience building backend and full-stack systems, now leading a 10+ engineer cross-functional team at TikTok focused on Designer Growth, Asset Supply, and AI-generated asset tooling. Rising through senior and staff engineering roles at TikTok, he has driven architecture and delivery for the TikTok Asset and Effect platforms, blending backend scalability with front-end and data orchestration. His background includes internships at Amazon, Synopsys, and research collaborations at USC, reflecting a mix of industry-grade performance engineering and academic curiosity. Comfortable operating at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and AI, he pairs practical system-building with a creative personal brand and an appetite for ambitious projects.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaComputer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Information Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Github Skills (16)
react-markdown8
zustand7
framer-motion6
linux6
python6
beeware6
pycairo6
cairo6
react5
react-admin5
admin5
styled-components5
vite4
tailwindcss4
react-query4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
changan29/changan29.github.io
Jul 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
changan29/playcpp
Jun 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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