Pearl Chen is an award-winning technologist and product leader with 11+ years of experience blending developer relations, product management, and hands-on engineering to make complex tech more approachable. Currently a Staff Product Manager at Intuit focused on designer productivity and GenAI, she has led product and design teams at FreshBooks and Receptiviti and managed DevRel at ecobee, Intel, and Google. A seasoned educator and founder of Make This Studio, Pearl has a track record of translating low-level technical work—contributing backend fixes to Apache CloudStack—into developer-friendly tools, curriculum, and workflows. Her background in new media and interactive art gives her a rare empathy for makers and designers, and she’s known for creating pragmatic, community-centered learning experiences that scale.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Part-time studies, Part-time studies at University of Ottawa
Bachelor of Fine Arts Image Arts: New Media, Bachelor of Fine Arts Image Arts: New Media at Toronto Metropolitan University
Post-Grad Interactive Art & Entertainment Program (formerly Habitat), Post-Grad Interactive Art & Entertainment Program (formerly Habitat) at Canadian Film Centre
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:600 reviews, 256 commits, 378 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Pearl made several contributions related to backend development in the Apache CloudStack project. They fixed IP address inconsistencies in Virtual Router (VR) operations and addressed an API issue regarding metrics. The user also worked on usage event enhancements for both templates and volumes during upload, demonstrating an understanding of the platform's storage and API architecture. In addition, the user contributed to several bug fixes across multiple modules, and the user corrected an issue in the Kubernetes cluster.
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 4 months
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