Summary
Finley Chen is a San Diego–based full stack developer with 10 years building pragmatic web experiences across agencies, freelance clients, and in-house teams. He blends LAMP-stack PHP and WordPress expertise with modern React front-ends, CMS work (Sanity), and polished design skills in CSS/SASS and Photoshop. Finley has shipped eCommerce and content-heavy sites—custom WooCommerce configurators, high-product Shopify migrations, and performance-optimized WordPress platforms—often coupling development with SEO, Google Web Vitals tuning, and conversion-focused marketing. Comfortable running projects end-to-end, he also writes custom plugins, sets up DevOps workflows, and migrates complex databases to improve reliability and scale. Known for practical problem-solving and a taste for ramen, he pairs technical depth with a marketer’s eye for user conversion and discoverability.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo