Summary
Eileen Chen is a Senior Associate Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience blending UX-driven design and pragmatic software development. At Capital One she has progressed from intern to senior associate, building resilient cloud pipelines and data quality tooling across Kafka, Snowflake, and AWS. Her background in HCI and product design—highlighted by leadership at Fitvio and multiple Carnegie Mellon research projects—gives her a rare ability to translate user needs into robust, production-ready systems. She mentors and teaches, having supported web development courses and led student projects in Ruby on Rails and database design. Notably, she pairs design thinking with hands-on engineering: from prototyping mobile payment interfaces to automating disaster recovery for enterprise databases. Eileen holds a BS in Information Systems with a minor in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon, graduating with a 4.0.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas S Wootton High School
Bachelor of Science - BS B.S. Information Systems, minor in Human-Computer Interation, Bachelor of Science - BS B.S. Information Systems, minor in Human-Computer Interation at Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science - MS Design, Master of Science - MS Design at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Spanish