David Chen
Capacity Planning Software Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Chen is a capacity planning software engineer with nine years of experience building and operating high-traffic backend systems, currently focused on capacity planning at Meta. He combines deep backend engineering (Java, C#, Go, Python) with systems-level performance work—improving availability and search latencies at Microsoft and scaling Card Autopay at Capital One to 200 TPS and 400k+ daily fulfillments. David has a strong track record of reducing costs and operational effort—migrating services to modern architectures, cutting DB costs by 90%, and removing recurring dependency maintenance that saved weeks of developer time. Comfortable across the stack and on-call workflows, he excels at translating performance data into actionable system changes and improving monitoring and alerting to reduce incident noise. Trained in math and computer science at UW–Madison, he pairs rigorous systems thinking with practical product-minded execution.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Spanish, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dlchen98/RaidBoss
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
bladeclandiscordblade-and-soulbot
undeadfire/hello-world
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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