Jesse Chen
Founding Engineer at Pylon
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Chen is a Founding Engineer with 11 years of software engineering experience based in San Francisco, currently employee #2 at Pylon where he’s helping shape product and infrastructure from the ground up. Prior to Pylon he spent five years at Samsara progressing from Software Engineer to Senior II, focusing on developer experience, CI/CD, safety systems, and multicam platform work that supported large-scale fleet safety products. He brings practical expertise in building developer tooling and resilient production pipelines that accelerate engineering velocity and reliability. Jesse’s early internships at Workday gave him a strong grounding in data platform and order management system optimization, a pattern that shows in his systems-first approach. Comfortable in both startup and scale-up environments, he blends hands-on implementation with product-minded engineering decisions. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic builder who prefers shipping robust systems over theoretical designs.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityPrinceton High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (36)
peach10
fishing10
runner10
realtime9
slack-api9
golang9
go9
orm9
orm-framework9
database9
orm-library9
graphql9
backend8
api8
slack8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ChenJesse/ClassGuide
Mar 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:34 PRs, 98 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
ChenJesse/WalkingDeadVisualization
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:66 PRs, 76 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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