David Chen
Principal Engineer at Allio Capital
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Chen is a Principal Engineer based in San Jose with a decade of experience designing cost-efficient, scalable cloud systems and full-stack products. He leads backend architecture and CI/CD for Allio Capital, building mono-repo microservices and data pipelines in Python and TypeScript while guiding engineering strategy and roadmaps. Previously he improved ecommerce conversion and checkout systems at Minted through Next.js, GraphQL, and personalization microservices, and has deep hands-on experience optimizing databases, caching, and deployment for high-throughput web services. His background in structural engineering and lab research informs a disciplined, measurement-driven approach to system design and automation. Comfortable moving between frontend and backend concerns, he pairs leadership in Agile teams with a history of performance tuning that cut DB sizes dramatically and slashed query latencies.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Civil Engineering, BS Civil Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyCivil Engineering, Civil Engineering at College of San MateoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mills High SchoolMaster of Engineering (MEng) Structural Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Structural Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive Full Stack Software Engineering, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Full Stack Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
English, Chinese, Japanese, French
Github Skills (70)
emotionjs10
service-worker10
project-setup10
workbox10
database9
webapp9
cordova9
emotion9
redux-toolkit9
babel-plugin9
oracle9
eslint9
sqlite9
browser8
javascript8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
clfhhc/sampleMovieList
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Project-Setup/github_pwa
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Example Github Page PWA with NextJs and Redux-toolkit
Contributions:73 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
reactemotionjspwareduxcode-spliting
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