Summary
Theodore Chen is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and product-focused platforms. As co-founder of The Public Notifier he automates legally complex public-notice workflows for real estate projects, removing a key compliance bottleneck that delays permitting, and previously built Groov, a fast image-driven record identifier for vinyl collectors. At Microsoft he reshaped Azure Compute release processes, migrated REST APIs to TypeSpec, and shipped LLM-powered developer assistants that turned prototypes into high-accuracy productivity tools. Comfortable across Python, JavaScript, C#, and systems automation, he blends systems thinking with a designer’s eye—an approach reinforced by his interests in travel and painting that help him find unconventional solutions to technical problems. Based in Washington, D.C., he values curiosity, integrity, and building tools that make complex processes clearer and more reliable.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at New York University