Siding Chen
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiding Chen is a founder and software leader with 11 years of industry experience building data-intensive, user-facing products across leading tech companies and startups. He led high-impact projects at ByteDance—driving systems serving 200M+ DAU and coordinating rapid compliance overhauls—after building reliable data pipelines at Airbnb and Alipay that reduced maintenance and improved resilience. As a founding engineer at Hongxiantou Tech he drove product strategy and shipped a 0-to-1 matchmaking app, and now runs Babra AI, an end-to-end admissions assistant that blends product design with ML-driven workflows. Comfortable across the full stack and system architecture, he pairs operational rigor with hands-on coding and a proven track record of scaling features and teams. Based in Santa Barbara and pursuing technology management studies at UCSB, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a user-centered approach honed since his student leadership days. An understated strength is his ability to translate tight business needs into robust, testable systems under aggressive timelines.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Southwest UniversityMaster's degree, Technology Management, Master's degree, Technology Management at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (19)
testing9
python9
discounts9
firefox8
api8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
nodejs7
chromium7
automation7
developer-tools7
node-module6
javascript6
js-api5
nike3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xndxcsd/JSwu
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 27 pushes in 4 months
swuos/openswu-webapi
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 35 PRs, 50 pushes in 8 months
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