Chris Chen
Software Engineer at Stripe
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Chen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building payments infrastructure at Stripe from his base in New York. He holds both BS and MS degrees from Northwestern University and brings a thoughtful, steady approach—self-described as "not great, often grateful"—to solving complex engineering problems. Comfortable across the stack, Chris focuses on shipping reliable, production-grade systems at scale within fast-paced fintech environments. His blend of strong academic grounding and a decade-plus of industry experience gives him a pragmatic lens for balancing technical trade-offs and product needs.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Northwestern University
Github Skills (6)
rest-api10
azure10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
rest10
openapi10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cschen13/nice
Feb 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
IEEE-NU/ieee-website
Nov 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 39 pushes, 15 branches in 9 months
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