Virginia Chen
Staff Software Engineer at Affirm
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolVirginia Chen is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of full-stack experience, currently shaping scalable product experiences at Affirm after progressing from individual contributor to staff-level roles. She blends backend proficiency in Python and Ruby/Rails with modern frontend skills in React and Redux, and a strong grounding in SQL and web standards. Her background in technology consulting for Fortune 500 clients honed her ability to deliver cloud-based CRM solutions on time and within budget, while her early biomedical engineering research demonstrates rigorous experimental and data-analysis chops. Comfortable with XP practices like TDD and pair programming, she has driven measurable product improvements such as scaling marketing feeds and accelerating product launches. Based in San Francisco, she brings a mix of analytical rigor from her Duke engineering training and practical product focus, often translating complex requirements into automated, high-impact engineering work.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Biomedical Engineering, BSE Biomedical Engineering at Duke UniversityHigh School, High School at The Harker School
English, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (3)
flask-application5
flask3
python3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
virginiac32/letter-run
Jul 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:63 commits, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
virginiac32/visualyze
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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