Chen Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChen Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building user-focused products at Microsoft, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer. He combines strong front-end sensibilities—prototyping and design—with robust system programming foundations developed during his MS at UIUC and prior teaching and research roles. A quick learner and self-starter, Chen emphasizes UX, maintainability, and pragmatic refactors that improve long-term product health. His background uniquely bridges computer science and food science, reflecting a curiosity for interdisciplinary problem-solving. Outside work he enjoys music, detective stories, board games, and puzzles, which inform his methodical and detail-oriented approach to engineering.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science (M.C.S.) Computer Science, Master of Computer Science (M.C.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree Food Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree Food Science and Technology at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (4)
jekyll6
javascript3
linux1
emulation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yshen47/ECE544_text_generation
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 6 pushes in 9 days
alpaca-cc/sysbuild
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
system-programmingjavascriptlearning-programmingbrowser
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