Vincent Chen
Staff Software Engineer at Paxos
United States
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Top SchoolVincent Chen is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems across cloud security, trading, and browser platforms. He led AWS WAF control plane and bot-intelligence efforts, designing a Rust-based pipeline that ingests and preprocesses 2000+ TB/day of logs to accelerate detection times and support ML workflows. His background spans low-latency trading systems and full-stack product work—from multithreaded C++/C# trading tools to customer-facing APIs and console features—reflecting deep systems and performance expertise. Now at Paxos, he applies that blend of distributed systems and security experience to financial infrastructure. Unusually, his career bridges aerospace and financial risk academic training with hands-on engineering, combining quantitative intuition with scalable software design.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Financial Market and Risk Management, 3.82/4.00, Master's degree, Financial Market and Risk Management, 3.82/4.00 at University of Illinois at ChicagoBachelor's degree, Aeronautics, Bachelor's degree, Aeronautics at Northwestern Polytechnic University (CN)
English, hokkien
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
git6
gitolite6
linux6
gitweb6
pattern2
rust2
streaming1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
artyyouth/r-quant
Nov 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 3 months
artyyouth/SpiderMonkey_JSON
Dec 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:6 commits in 2 months
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