Steve Chen
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Chen is a Principal Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 12 years of experience building production systems that power education and connectivity initiatives. He has led data pipeline redesigns, serverless APIs, and front-end builds to make K-12 broadband data actionable at EducationSuperHighway and later drove product engineering at Seesaw Learning and Ignite Reading. Steve combines hands-on DevOps and backend expertise—migrating legacy systems to AWS and automating QA/deployments—with a talent for mentoring engineers in TDD, CI/CD, and sustainable ownership. He favors purposeful technology that improves access for underserved learners and has a track record of shipping user-facing analytics and tooling that non-developers can operate. Less obvious: his background includes large-scale production deployment experience from Apple and Couchsurfing, giving him an unusual mix of startup agility and enterprise-grade operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Bachelors at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (36)
pdf7
renderer7
filter6
buildpack6
react6
heroku6
flexbox6
pdf-files6
ruby-on-rails5
aws5
agent5
react-pdf5
application-load-balancer4
amazon-web-services4
activerecord4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
educationsuperhighway/eshbot
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
Your friendly neighborhood eshbot
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 6 months
neighborhood
sebboh/consul-heroku-buildpack
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Heroku buildpack for running the Consul agent
Contributions:12 commits, 26 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months
consul-agentherokuheroku-buildpackagentbuildpack
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