Jake Chen
Senior Recruiter at Citi
Beijing, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Chen is a seasoned talent acquisition leader with 8 years of recruiting experience and a 15+ year career in workforce solutions across APAC. Currently a Senior Recruiter at Citi, he brings deep banking and financial services hiring expertise built through leadership roles at Mizuho, Income, and Visa. Jake is skilled at scaling hiring programs, managing contingent workforce strategies, and partnering with HRBPs across diverse markets and functions. He combines a data-informed approach from his Business Information Systems background with a human-centered philosophy—believing candidate experience and emotional resonance matter as much as fit. Known for simplifying processes (a believer in "don't repeat yourself"), he’s pragmatic about vendor management and performance-driven recruitment. Based in Beijing with roots in Singapore, he blends regional market savvy with hands-on operational delivery.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management at Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI)Business Information Systems, Business Information Systems at Temasek Polytechnic
English, Chinese
Github Skills (48)
snmp10
tower10
middleware10
visualization10
5g10
erlang10
connected10
messaging10
mqtt-protocol10
widgets10
coap10
lorawan10
m2m10
broker10
software-update10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Jakecy/smartacus-mqtt-broker
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
smartacus-mqtt-broker is a Java-based open source MQTT broker that fully supports MQTT 3.x .Using Netty 4.1.37
Contributions:9 commits, 149 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
brokermqttmqtt-clientnettymqtt-broker
Jakecy/Refactoring-DesignPattern_study_note
Jun 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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