Scott Chen
Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarScott Chen is a software engineer and seasoned technology leader with 7 years of industry experience and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech, combining deep academic expertise in signal processing and ML with proven executive results. He led Grindr as President/CTO through rapid user and revenue growth and a $620M acquisition, and has held senior engineering roles at Meta, Facebook, Instagram and Reality Labs focused on search ranking, ads, anti-spam, recommendations and wearable health. Scott is hands-on across big data, distributed systems, experimentation infrastructure and erasure-coding storage optimizations—contributions that include Hadoop/HDFS improvements and open-source committer work. Based in the Bay Area, he blends startup leadership with product- and metrics-driven engineering, routinely moving research into production at scale. Outside work he identifies simply as “a father, a programmer,” signaling a pragmatic, people-centered approach to technology and teams.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (2)
open-source6
edtech6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gg-daddy/keynote
Sep 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
gg-daddy/ebooks
Dec 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 3 months
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