Jennifer Chen
ML Engineer at Affirm
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Chen is an ML engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of software and research experience spanning fintech, trading, and data science. She combines a Computer Science background with a Philosophy minor from McGill, which informs a thoughtful, analytical approach to model development and problem framing. Her internships at Citadel, Hudson River Trading, Bloomberg, and Coinbase show hands-on experience with low-latency systems and production-grade engineering, and she now applies that rigor at Affirm. Jennifer has blended academic research and practical software work—contributing to university data science projects and blockchain development—demonstrating comfort moving between prototype research and scalable implementation. Colleagues describe her as intellectually curious and pragmatic, able to translate complex ML research into reliable engineering outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma & Ontario Secondary School Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma & Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Bayview Secondary SchoolSHAD Summer Program, SHAD Summer Program at University of SaskatchewanYale Young Global Scholars Summer Program, Yale Young Global Scholars Summer Program at Yale UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Science Major Philosophy Minor, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Major Philosophy Minor at McGill University
Github Skills (11)
facebook5
react5
api5
styled-components5
iteration4
dashboard3
typescript3
static-site2
markdown1
site-generator1
static-site-generator1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jenniferchen11/txtLAB
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
jenniferchen11/fb-wordcloud
Jan 2021 - May 2021
This project for Hack the North 2021 uses FaceBook's API and React.js to generate aesthetic word clouds using the words that the user enjoys posting on their Facebook timeline!
Contributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 months
apireacttimelineapi-snorth
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