Summary
Dong Chen is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading product and platform teams across consumer and B2B domains at companies like Airbnb, Tinder, and Snap. He builds cross-functional, data-driven engineering organizations that ship growth initiatives, AI-powered personalization features, and AR/monetization products from concept to launch. At Tinder he led initiatives that increased DAU and retention through a Rewards program and AI Photo Selector, while at Snap he scaled novel products such as Camera Kit and AR Enterprise SDKs and grew commerce and games to hundreds of thousands to over a million daily users. Comfortable setting technical vision and operational frameworks, he also champions career development and async-friendly cultures for distributed teams. Trained at Carnegie Mellon with top-ranked undergraduate honors from Nanjing University, he blends rigorous technical depth with a track record of turning experimental ideas into measurable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electronic Information Science and Technology Ranking: 1/76, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electronic Information Science and Technology Ranking: 1/76 at Nanjing University
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English