Christopher Chen
Staff Software Engineer at Astrada
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Chen is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing scalable full-stack and blockchain systems for companies like PayPal and Mastercard, and currently leading engineering at Astrada while founding the mission-driven One Song Foundation. He combines deep backend expertise—Kafka, gRPC/REST APIs, Scala, Node.js, and cloud-native patterns—with a track record of shipping payment and data-pipeline products that handle billions of records. Christopher also pioneered internal blockchain initiatives and built PayPal’s internal recognition program, demonstrating a flair for practical crypto applications and cross-team leadership. Beyond code, he integrates a long-term personal practice in Sundo meditation into his leadership approach, focusing on resilience, recovery, and technology that reconnects people. Based in San Jose, he brings a rare blend of financial-infrastructure rigor and human-centered mission work to engineering and product problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesAssociate's Degree, Computer Science, Associate's Degree, Computer Science at Cabrillo College
Chinese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (81)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cchen408/intellij
Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:180 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
cchen408/cchen408.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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