Terry Chen
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTerry Chen is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building modern, scalable iOS products at LinkedIn from Messenger features to on-device conversion attribution. He led iOS technical efforts—designing a modular, reactive Messenger architecture, a shared data-layer SDK adopted across multiple lines of business, and an integrated native video SDK using Microsoft ACS. Terry combines deep client-side craftsmanship (including contributions to the Hakawai UITextView project fixing subtle runtime and conversion issues) with pragmatic ownership of shipping large product launches to LinkedIn’s entire member base. His background includes an MS in Computer Science from UCLA and a BS from Case Western Reserve, and he brings a pattern-driven approach to refactoring legacy codebases for extensibility and testability. Based in Mountain View, he is comfortable collaborating across teams to turn cross-platform requirements into reusable SDKs and delightful user experiences. Beyond shipping features, he focuses on code quality and maintainability, often addressing deprecations and flaky tests that silently erode long-term velocity.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
uitextview10
objective-c10
ios10
debug9
debugging9
testing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/Hakawai
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
A powerful, extensible UITextView.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:18 commits, 11 PRs, 1 comment in 9 days
Contributions summary:Terry focused on cleaning up warnings and addressing implicit conversion issues in the Hakawai project, specifically within the `HKWAbstractionLayer` and `HKWMentionsPlugin` files. Their changes involved refactoring code to avoid potential runtime issues by correcting data type conversions between NSInteger and NSUInteger. They also fixed failing tests and updated deprecated methods, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and maintaining the project's integrity.
swiftiosuikitextensible
terrychen1122/ExcitementPrediction
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:73 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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