Marshall Shen is a lead software engineer based in Chicago with 12 years of experience building and guiding teams at payments and fintech companies. He has progressed through multiple engineering and leadership roles at PayPal (including Venmo and Braintree), served as Head of Engineering at Classkick, and held CTO responsibilities at HiLink before joining TriumphPay. Marshall blends hands-on technical depth with product-focused leadership, shipping scalable payment systems and platform features across high-throughput environments. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia and a B.S. in Computer Science, Statistics, and Mathematics from the University of Iowa, reflecting a strong analytical foundation. Notably, his career path shows a repeated pattern of stepping into roles that bridge individual contributor impact and organizational leadership, making him effective at growing engineering capability while still contributing technically.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Columbia University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Statistics Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Statistics Mathematics at University of Iowa
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Marshall Shen - Lead Software Engineer at TriumphPay