Richard Chen
Software Engineer at Citadel Securities
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Chen is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience across low-latency trading systems, robotics routing, mobile product engineering, and embedded algorithm optimization. Currently on the regulatory reporting team at Citadel Securities, he previously interned there and has shipped work at Meta, Nuro, and Element Biosciences—where a C/C++ optimization he implemented delivered a 90% speedup and became production code. A Stanford CS BS and MS candidate, he has taught core CS106 concepts as a section leader and led a high-altitude balloon simulator project, blending strong systems and algorithm skills with teaching and project leadership. Richard’s background spans full-stack frontend work in React/TypeScript, ML research in drug discovery, and practical data tooling, reflecting a versatile engineer who moves fluidly between research, production, and instruction.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Westview High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese
Github Skills (11)
spacex7
noaa7
altitude7
orbital-mechanics6
balloon5
explore5
simulator5
simulation5
space4
baduk4
rover3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chenner45/chenner45.github.io
Dec 2021 - Aug 2023
Third iteration of my personal website built with Jekyll
Contributions:45 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
jekylliteration
chenner45/habsim
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
Stanford Student Space Initiative High Altitude Balloon Simulator
Contributions:18 PRs, 29 pushes in 7 months
flight-simulationballoonstanfordaltitudertlsdr
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