Summary
Rikey Chen is a software engineer with eight years of experience who transitioned from commercial lines underwriting to building full-stack SaaS products for moving, transportation, and logistics companies. He has shipped features across frontend and backend stacks using React, Redux, Ruby on Rails, Node, TypeScript, and both SQL and NoSQL datastores, and has hands-on experience with observability and AWS infrastructure. At startups he has driven customer-facing integrations (Stripe, Thumbtack), mobile features, onboarding automation, and SFTP workflows that directly improved operational stickiness. Rikey pairs his product-focused engineering with a data-informed mindset from his business economics background and prior underwriting role managing a $7M portfolio. Colleagues rely on him for cross-cutting work spanning infra, observability, and customer support, not just feature code. Based in Hayward, CA, he thrives on building practical systems that streamline complex transportation workflows.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Business Economics, Bachelor’s Degree, Business Economics at University of California, Irvine
Chinese, taishanese