Emily Chen is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer-focused infrastructure from the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently develops at unstructured.io after contributing to Elastic’s Cloud Platform team, where she helped scale and harden distributed services. Her background includes product-facing engineering at Meetup and a strong academic foundation with an MS in Computer Science from Columbia and a BS in Materials Science & Engineering from MIT. Emily bridges rigorous systems thinking with practical product delivery, often working at the intersection of reliability, performance, and developer experience. Colleagues would describe her as someone who moves fluently between low-level technical tradeoffs and higher-level platform design. She brings a curiosity-driven approach informed by both materials science and advanced CS training, which helps her tackle interdisciplinary engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, B.S., Materials Science & Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Columbia University
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