Neil Chen
Software Engineer at Waymo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNeil Chen is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building production systems across machine learning, trading, and robotics, currently contributing to Waymo after driving climate-focused ML and building energy-reduction hardware/software at Google Earth. He has a strong quantitative background from Columbia (B.S. Computer Science) and a track record at Goldman Sachs and SIMON Markets designing low-latency trading infrastructure. Neil’s early research and teaching in humanoid robotics and creative machines reflect a habit of bridging research and production, and his hackathon wins demonstrate a competitive product-oriented mindset. He maintains an active developer presence (codephil.org and GitHub NWChen) and has experience shipping at scale in both startup and large-company environments. A non-obvious thread through his career is combining hands-on embedded/hardware work with cloud ML systems, enabling practical end-to-end impact on real-world systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Computer Science and Technology for Urban YouthB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Columbia University
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Github Skills (46)
syntax-highlighting8
raytracing8
ansible-collections7
set-theory7
css7
theory7
webcam7
jupyter-notebook7
detector6
jupyterlab-extension6
jupyterlab6
jupyter6
ros5
image-recognition5
compilation5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
NWChen/heckell
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:167 commits, 18 PRs, 75 pushes in 3 months
compilerprogramming-languagetheoryset-theory
NWChen/tshirt-shooting-robot
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:187 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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