Kevin Shen
Senior Engineering Manager at BlackLine
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Shen is a Senior Engineering Manager with 10 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native e-commerce and financial systems, currently leading BlackLine’s Financial Consolidation & Reporting engineering organization. He has a proven track record at Amazon and AWS delivering greenfield products and cross-functional, customer-focused features that moved millions of users and materially improved operational metrics. Kevin blends hands-on architecture (microservices on Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, Kafka, Snowflake) with people leadership—scaling global teams and promoting engineers while keeping delivery velocity and cost efficiency. He has driven measurable business impact through platform-level work (partner onboarding accelerators, unified buying layers) and by shifting teams from ad-hoc custom work to reusable capabilities. Recently he spearheaded GenAI initiatives that cut reporting and commentary preparation time by 40–55%, showing a knack for applying emerging tech to real-world workflows. Based in Seattle, he pairs technical depth from engineering roles with management training from Harvard Business School Online, enabling pragmatic product-and-architecture decisions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Credential of Readiness (CORe), Certificate in Credential of Readiness (CORe) at Harvard Business School OnlineExchange student Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Exchange student Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Chiao Tung UniversityBachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaExchange student Computer Science, Exchange student Computer Science at Uppsala UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Chinese, 中文普通话Github contributions (5)
ChutianShen/Playground
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ChutianShen/AndroidNodejs
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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