Michael Chen
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable product and acquisition systems, currently focused on onboarding and growth at Brex in New York. He has strong full-stack chops from roles at Yelp and Stripe, where he shipped data-driven ad products, APIs, and reusable frontend components to measure attribution and analytics. A Georgia Tech MS graduate and former CS instructor, he pairs rigorous algorithmic thinking with hands-on engineering across Python, React, GraphQL, and large-data stores. Michael is drawn to hard problems and rapid iteration—he's led project scoping, incident response, and mentoring efforts while driving measurable business impact. Notably, he balances product-facing analytics work with deep system design experience gained from Alexa, research institute projects, and high-coverage testing practices.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Science at University of OxfordBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyNational Merit Scholarship Finalist, National Merit Scholarship Finalist at Hunter College High School
Chinese, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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18answers
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Github Skills (138)
http10
web-development10
javascript10
youtube10
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dynamic-programming10
code-documentation10
pypi10
documentation10
algorithms10
css10
data-structures10
chatgpt9
linux9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ML-Chen/vaporwave-gan
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Generating vaporwave art with StyleGAN2 and transfer learning
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 months
transfer-learningganstylegan2vaporwave
jazeved0/hackgt-6
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Hack GT Project for HackGT 6
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
gamehackgt
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