Summary
Starr Chen is an engineering manager with 10 years of full-stack experience, currently leading teams at Business Insider from the Washington, DC / New York area. She combines hands-on delivery of microservices, APIs, and user-facing React interfaces with a strong background in legacy modernization and CI/CD for federal-scale projects. Scrum-certified and people-focused, Starr prioritizes psychological safety and DEI while optimizing team processes to consistently ship production-ready features. Her early research and data-management work in behavioral science inform a disciplined, evidence-driven approach to product decisions and usability testing. Known informally as her team's "chief hydration officer," she blends technical leadership with a community-minded, human-centered management style.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High school, Civil & mechanical engineering, High school, Civil & mechanical engineering at Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, Neuroscience minor, Pre-medicine, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, Neuroscience minor, Pre-medicine at University of Maryland
High school diploma, High school diploma at Mount Hebron High School
English, Chinese, French