Tim Chen is a senior software engineering manager with 10 years of professional experience and a 20+-year career arc in engineering and technical leadership across China. Currently at Microsoft since 2020, he previously led engineering and backend teams at Tradeshift China, scaling distributed systems and building regional engineering capability. He combines hands-on backend and database expertise from early roles with strategic people and delivery leadership, having progressed from developer to Head of Engineering. Based in Jiangsu, he has a track record of driving cross-functional teams through growth and organizational transitions. Not obvious from titles: his background includes deep database development early in his career, which informs a data-driven approach to system design and operational reliability. He holds a B.S. in Computer and Information Sciences from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer and Information Sciences, General at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
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