Summary
Richard Cen is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building payment, billing, and fulfillment platforms at scale, currently leading shopper management and fulfillment platform efforts at Instacart. He progressed through technical leadership roles at Indeed, where he owned billing infrastructure, order and subscription management, messaging and real-time provisioning, and integrations with major payment processors. A Rice University-trained engineer with an MS in Computer Science and a BA in ECE, he blends systems-level understanding with product-minded execution across event-driven microservices and payment ecosystems. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex financial and operational requirements into reliable, production-grade services while mentoring teams through architectural trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Rice University
English, Chinese