Jiachen chen
Software Engineer at Facebook
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJiachen Chen is a software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack products at scale, currently working on the Meta Avatar Store out of Menlo Park. Previously they spent five years on Ads engineering at Facebook, bringing product-focused backend and frontend rigor to high-throughput systems. Their open-source work includes front-end contributions to Source Academy, improving UX around assessments and grading—demonstrating an eye for user-facing detail and educational tooling. Jiachen holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State and a bachelor's in Information Engineering, blending formal engineering training with hands-on product delivery. Known for polishing UI affordances and surfacing useful information, they bridge design sensibility with robust engineering in consumer and internal-facing platforms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering at Penn State UniversityBachelor's degree, Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Information Engineering at Southeast University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
frontend9
redux8
ide7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
source-academy/frontend
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Frontend of Source Academy, an online experiential environment for computational thinking (React, Redux, Saga, Blueprint)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 48 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jiachen primarily contributed to the front-end of the Source Academy project. They implemented the display of the question number in the control bar, added student names to the grading editor, and incorporated grading status indicators in the assessment overview. The user also worked on the grading results tab for students, improving the presentation and reflecting markdown in comments. These contributions showcase their focus on enhancing the user experience and displaying relevant information within the application.
nusreactblueprintredux-sagajavascript
AY1920S2-CS2103T-W16-2/main
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
ZeroToOne
Contributions:1 release, 49 PRs, 133 pushes in 7 months
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