Summary
Elena Shen is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems for finance and retail, currently leading engineering work at Data Communications Lab. She has deep experience integrating and operating containerized data connectors and streaming pipelines that handled spikes above 1,000 events per minute for clients like Jefferies, Citadel, and Janus Henderson. Elena blends front-end expertise in React (including migrating class components to hooks) with backend services in Nest.js and PostgreSQL, plus Docker-based deployments, and has applied SRE practices at The Home Depot to improve team reliability. Her background at Amazon includes designing automated advertising systems and mobile UX improvements, revealing a knack for marrying engineering with measurable business impact. Comfortable working directly with high-profile clients, she balances hands-on implementation with cross-team communication to deliver tailored solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Chinese, chinese (shanghai)