Chien Kuo
VP Of Engineering at Primary Venture Partners
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChien Kuo is a seasoned engineering leader and VP of Engineering based in New York with two decades of software experience and a dozen years in senior leadership roles driving product and operational transformation. He has scaled engineering organizations from early-stage teams to 50+ engineers, led migrations to service-oriented and cloud-native architectures, and delivered measurable improvements in release velocity, NPS, and developer productivity across health, education, and fintech. At Alaffia Health he now shapes AI-driven claims automation, building on prior work at Oscar Health where he improved mobile NPS to industry-leading levels and halved release lead time through process and tooling reforms. A former founder and hands-on technologist, he’s comfortable shipping UI/UX enhancements (including open-source Swift paging menu work) as well as data pipelines and ML-driven text analytics. He pairs an MBA from NYU Stern with deep engineering chops and a knack for mentoring and organizational design that turns technical strategy into operational results.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science and Information Engineering, Bachelor Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneurship and Finance, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneurship and Finance at NYU Stern School of Business
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
ux-design10
uid10
swift10
user-interface10
ios10
user-experience10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kitasuke/PagingMenuController
May 2016 - May 2016
Paging view controller with customizable menu in Swift
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 20 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Chien primarily contributed to the UI/UX of the Swift-based paging menu controller. They added multiline text support to menu items, allowing for more descriptive labels. The user also modified the example project to incorporate a navigation bar, demonstrating integration with existing UI elements. Additionally, they made adjustments to the layout constraints and menu view to enhance the project's overall usability.
controllermenupagingrefreshcustomizable
chien/scrapinghub
Oct 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
apiapi-srubyscrapinghubruby-library
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