Vita Chen is a Senior Software Engineer in Mountain View with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and expressive front-end experiences. Currently on LinkedIn's Enterprise Platform and Jobs Trust teams, she blends Java, Python and Node.js expertise with SQL/NoSQL and GraphQL to deliver reliable services at scale. Her background in HCI (MS from Carnegie Mellon) and early UX engineering work at Deloitte and CMU give her a rare product-minded perspective for backend engineering, informed by direct user research and prototyping. Prior roles at Houzz saw her improve consumer-facing React infrastructure—accessibility, design systems and performance—so she comfortably bridges API design and front-end developer ergonomics. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic: she ships production services while keeping developer experience and deployment automation (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes) in mind.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Study abroad, Psychology; Finance, GPA 3.83, Study abroad, Psychology; Finance, GPA 3.83 at Waseda University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology; Finance; Computer Science, GPA 3.93, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology; Finance; Computer Science, GPA 3.93 at Washington University in St. Louis
Masters of Human-Computer Interaction, School of Computer Science, GPA 3.87, Masters of Human-Computer Interaction, School of Computer Science, GPA 3.87 at Carnegie Mellon University
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