Victor Chen
Software Engineer at Zip
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Chen is a software engineer with a decade of experience focused on security and infrastructure, currently building security systems at Zip. He helped stand up and scale Nuro’s security organization from a founding trio to a 25-person team, drove major GCP migrations and secrets-management initiatives, and established Nuro’s initial Detection and Response capabilities. Prior roles at Quora, Google, Snapchat, and SAP reflect a mix of SecEnv, application security, and full‑stack engineering across cloud, on‑prem, and developer tooling. Victor holds BS/MS degrees in Computer Science from UC San Diego and combines deep hands‑on engineering with operational security practice. He’s motivated by building tools that meaningfully improve people’s lives and has a portfolio site (chenboy3.github.io) that showcases his work beyond résumés and job titles.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoLynbrook High SchoolConcurrent Enrollment Student, Mathematics, Concurrent Enrollment Student, Mathematics at West Valley College
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
zipkin8
github-api8
secrets7
security7
distributed-tracing7
opentracing7
secrets-detection7
gitlab6
golang6
observability6
opentelemetry5
bitbucket5
android5
github5
cordova5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chenboy3/CSE120PA3Tester
Feb 2018 - Feb 2020
Test Suit/Setup for PA3
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years
test-suitsuit
chenboy3/portfolio
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:22 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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