Kevin Chen
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Chen is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic after a multi-year tenure on Stripe's payments team. He combines a strong backend and database mindset—evidenced by contributions to neo4jphp that fixed subtle URL encoding and type-handling bugs and added robust tests—with applied ML and bioinformatics research experience from Columbia and the University of Pittsburgh. Kevin has shipped production payment features at scale and also worked on video understanding with 3D ConvNets and representation learning for single-cell RNAseq, showing a rare blend of infrastructure and research fluency. Based in New York, he brings pragmatic engineering, careful testing, and a curiosity for data-driven problems to product-focused teams. Colleagues can rely on him for thoughtful refactors that prevent subtle bugs and for turning research ideas into reproducible code.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Upper St. Clair High SchoolBachelor of Science Computer Science; Minor in Operations Research, Bachelor of Science Computer Science; Minor in Operations Research at Columbia University
Github Skills (4)
php10
neo4j10
unit-testing9
rest-api8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jadell/neo4jphp
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
PHP wrapper of the Neo4j REST interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:11 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the `neo4jphp` library, a PHP wrapper for the Neo4j REST interface. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to property handling when querying nodes by labels, specifically addressing URL encoding issues. They also added test cases to ensure the correct behavior with integer values. The changes included refactoring code to improve the data type handling of properties passed to the Neo4j database.
apiphpphp-wrapperrestneo4j
kevinc13/django-vue-scaffold
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
A scaffold for creating Django + Vue.js web apps
Contributions:5 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
django-vuescaffoldvue-jspythondjango-rest-framework
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