Summary
Hillman Chen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems across fintech and cloud platforms in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has delivered features and infrastructure at companies ranging from startups to hyperscalers, including Alkami Technology, Varo Bank, Amazon, and Uber, demonstrating adaptability across high-throughput and regulated environments. Comfortable across the stack, Hillman’s background includes performance-focused tooling, automation, and data-structure design from early roles at Mentor Graphics and internship projects that improved DPI support and modernized file transfer. A challenge-driven engineer by description, he pairs practical engineering craft with a propensity for reducing manual toil—evident from past automation that cut environment readiness time substantially.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Portland State University