Churen Shao
Staff Software Engineer at Affirm
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChuren Shao is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building scalable pricing and growth systems for consumer and merchant platforms. He’s led pricing foundations at Affirm, architecting a core pricing configuration bundle that improved performance over 100x and driving a multi-year migration off a monolith into a dedicated service. Previously at Udemy he designed dynamic pricing engines, affiliate frameworks, and systems that scaled in-app purchases from hundreds to tens of thousands of courses, blending product collaboration with strong technical design. He balances hands-on architecture, roadmap ownership, and mentoring, and brings an uncommon mix of performance tuning, domain-driven RPC decoupling, and experimentation infrastructure to pricing and growth problems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (18)
packing7
usps6
wsl26
ups6
fedex6
uploader6
nodejs4
windows4
api4
music3
spotify3
google-music3
desktop2
big-data1
java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chushao/Gradesource-Uploader
Dec 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
uploader
chushao/node-package-tracking-api
Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
uspsapinode-jspackingtracking
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