Justin Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Your Missing Semester
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Chen is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building full-stack web and data-driven systems across startups and fintech. A CMU-trained engineer, he has shipped production services at Blend and Airtable and now contributes to developer tooling at Retool, specializing in React/Redux, Node, and scalable backend services. He led impactful projects such as an OCR-driven document platform, a secure ML sandbox for PII, and monetization tooling that accelerated business outcomes, showing a knack for turning ML and data into product value. Justin also founded a volunteer organization that mentors underrepresented students in computer science, reflecting a commitment to teaching and community impact. His engineering roots trace back to an early entrepreneurial web project that drew millions of pageviews, signaling both product instincts and growth-minded thinking.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorUniversity High SchoolBachelor of Science Materials Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, Latin
Github Skills (1)
ruby3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vetshack/vetifieds
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:82 PRs, 62 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
justinpchen94/fullstack-walkthrough-react
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 4 pushes in 2 days
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