Frank Chen
CTO, Co-founder at Balto Energy
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Chen is a maker and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building resilient, human-centered systems across startups, enterprise products, and national labs. As CTO and co-founder of Balto Energy and previously a Special Projects Lead at Slack, he focuses on improving developer productivity and crafting delightful, reliable tooling that scales. His background spans forward-deployed problem solving at Palantir, launching AWS WorkDocs at Amazon, and resiliency research at Sandia, blending systems reliability with behavior design and HCI. A Stanford MS in Computer Science with work on persuasive health interventions and early Tiny Habits prototypes gives him an uncommon mix of psychology-informed product thinking and deep technical chops. Based in Mountain View, he excels at turning complex data and infrastructure challenges into pragmatic, user-centered solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesMaster's of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master's of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (40)
static-site-generator10
responsive10
github-pages10
tailwindcss10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
liquid10
intellij9
kotlin9
intellij-plugin9
android-app9
gradle9
directives9
gradle-plugin8
logic8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fxchen/frankc
May 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:28 commits in 7 months
fxchen/alfred-rescuetime-workflow
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
rescuetimealfredalfred-workflowshortcutsworkflow
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