Jerry Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Valon
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Chen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 8 years building full-stack, product-focused systems that prioritize impact and maintainability. He has shipped production software across startups and enterprise teams—most recently at Valon after leading backend and frontend efforts at CurbWaste, BCG X, and Capital Rx—working with TypeScript, Go, Python, React, PostgreSQL and cloud infra (AWS, Azure, Terraform). Jerry combines hands-on engineering with product sensibility, driving personalization and AI-driven features as well as financial and benefits portals that scale to millions of users. He values elegant, autonomous solutions and has a habit of turning operational constraints into cleaner architecture and developer workflows. Outside work he shares projects and thinking on GitHub and his personal site, signaling an ongoing curiosity for tooling and craft.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems at Rutgers University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
google-maps-api4
react-native2
javascript1
frontend1
masters1
react1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
misodope/misoauto
Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:24 PRs, 156 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 3 months
misodope/tiktokmisodope.github.io
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 28 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 5 months
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