Summary
Siding 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 University
Master's degree, Technology Management, Master's degree, Technology Management at UC Santa Barbara