Frank Chen
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFrank Chen is a seasoned product and UX executive turned venture partner based in San Francisco, with over two decades of experience launching and scaling enterprise software and infrastructure services. At Andreessen Horowitz he advises founders building "world-eating" software companies, drawing on prior leadership roles at Opsware/HP, Loudcloud, Netscape and Oracle where he led product, UI, and operations teams. He combines product strategy, fundraising and go-to-market expertise with hands-on design sensibilities rooted in a Stanford Symbolic Systems background. Frank also contributes to open-source blockchain tooling—integrating Ares Protocol endpoints and UI theming into the widely used polkadot-js/apps—to bridge emerging Web3 networks and developer UX. Known for turning complex enterprise requirements into compelling product experiences, he brings both executive judgement and practical technical fluency to early-stage investments.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma, High school diploma at Taipei American SchoolB.S. Symbolic Systems (Cognitive Science), B.S. Symbolic Systems (Cognitive Science) at Stanford University
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Github Skills (14)
substrate10
polkadot-js10
javascript10
polkadot10
react10
blockchain9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
typescripts8
typescript8
json8
typescript-types8
websocket7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
polkadot-js/apps
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the configuration and integration of Ares Protocol within the Polkadot.js Apps, a user interface for interacting with Polkadot and Substrate nodes. Their work involved adding Rococo and Kusama network endpoints for Ares, incorporating Ares-related logos and color schemes, and integrating the Ares Odyssey live network. The user also updated the ares-gladios testnet json files and made adjustments to the code to support Ares-chain, demonstrating proficiency in configuring and adapting the UI to support the Ares Protocol.
substrateblockchainwalletchainssubstrate-node
taiyuechain/taiyuechain
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 239 commits, 235 pushes in 3 months
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