Summary
Tim Chen is a technical founder and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience shipping mobile-first products and leading iOS architecture from prototype to scale. He co-founded two app studios, growing portfolio apps to over 250K downloads with multiple App Store features and top-50 rankings in Taiwan. As lead iOS developer and architect across SF and Taipei startups, he modernized legacy codebases with RxSwift, Texture, WebSockets and CI while improving documentation and live-streaming stability. Currently he drives product and AI-focused mobile architecture at Hushli, designing core conversation and journaling systems and leading growth and fundraising efforts. Comfortable across mobile, backend and Firebase, he pairs rapid iteration and user-feedback loops with measurable retention gains—his earlier weather app regularly topped Taiwan’s charts. Beyond engineering, he blends product strategy and business development, regularly turning user insights into feature experiments.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems at National Chengchi University
Master of Science (M.S.), Technology management, Master of Science (M.S.), Technology management at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
French, Chinese, English