Chen Shay
Software Engineering Manager at Google
United States
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RockstarChen Shay is a software engineering manager with nine years of experience leading frontend teams at Google, currently serving as a Tech Lead Manager and Software Engineering Manager since 2019 and 2023 respectively. He brings hands-on expertise in web components and performance optimizations, having contributed to the high-profile AMP project by improving amp-carousel swipe interactions, video preconnects, and webview messaging. Known for blending managerial responsibilities with active code contributions, he focuses on shipping polished user-facing features while resolving subtle bugs and improving developer ergonomics. Based in the United States, Chen balances strategic team leadership with pragmatic engineering, ensuring cross-functional impact from product concept to production. A detail-oriented engineer, he often improves UX by addressing touch handling and styling nuances that are easy to overlook but critical at scale.
9 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
google-amp10
ampl10
testing10
webview8
android-webview8
react7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amphtml
Nov 2016 - Oct 2019
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 56 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chen primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `amp-carousel` and `amp-viewer-integration` extensions within the AMP project. Their work involved implementing features like touch event handling for swipe functionality and adding preconnect for better video loading. The user also focused on refining the styling of the `amp-carousel` component and integrating a string-based message format to the webview. Additionally, they addressed issues with existing code, such as error messaging.
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
chenshay/amphtml
Dec 2016 - Jul 2019
AMP HTML source code, samples, and documentation. See below for more info.
Contributions:30 commits, 321 pushes, 157 branches in 2 years 7 months
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