Steven Chen
Product Designer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Chen is a Product Design lead based in San Francisco with a decade of experience designing end-to-end experiences across agencies, startups, and large tech companies. For the past 5+ years he has led product strategy and UX for consumer and enterprise offerings, currently guiding several enterprise search advertising products within Google’s ecosystem. He blends user insights and quantitative data to align cross-functional teams from concept to launch, while maintaining hands-on ownership of UX. Beyond design, Steven contributes to open-source cloud tooling—bringing security and deployment sensibilities from work on Spinnaker components (gate, halyard, spin) that improved IAP, authentication, and deployment controls. That mix of product strategy, practical engineering collaboration, and security-aware contributions helps him translate complex technical constraints into usable, launch-ready products.
10 years of coding experience
Gates Millennium ScholarUniversity of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (28)
google-iap10
command-line-interface10
web-deploy10
java10
deployer10
security10
gcp10
javas10
go10
web-deployment10
jwt10
command-line10
iab10
spinnaker10
hal10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/halyard
May 2018 - Jan 2019
A tool for configuring, installing, and updating Spinnaker
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 26 PRs, 14 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to various aspects of the Spinnaker/Halyard project, including enhancements to deployment processes, security configurations, and authorization features. Their work involved modifying code related to deployment controllers, services, and CLI commands, as well as implementing new features like the ability to exclude services during deployments and adding support for Cloud IAP authentication. They also made changes to file structures and configurations related to Canary analysis and Rosco profile generation.
installingupdatingspinnaker
spinnaker/gate
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
Spinnaker API Gateway
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:10 commits, 17 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Steven focused on implementing and enhancing security features within the Spinnaker API Gateway. They developed a new web security integration with IAP using JWT tokens for authentication. They also made changes to allow IAP and x509 authentication to be enabled together and fixed issues with basic authentication and configuration, ensuring the proper handling of permitted paths and key caching. These changes improved the overall security posture of the API gateway.
api-gatewayapigolanggatewayspinnaker
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