Waley Chen
Software Engineer at Profound
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWaley Chen is a software engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience and eight years focused on backend and full-stack work in fintech and payments. He’s shipped high-impact payment systems at companies like Brex, Justworks and Bread, automating cheque processing, accelerating bank verification to minutes, and uncovering millions in accounting gaps. Technically fluent across Ruby on Rails, Go, Elixir, C++, React and PostgreSQL, he bridges low-level systems work with user-facing interfaces. His open-source contributions include meaningful UI and single-instance application improvements to MongoDB Compass, showing comfort moving between databases and desktop GUI tooling. Waley combines a strong product sensibility—reducing onboarding friction and operational toil—with a track record of reliable, scalable money-movement and fraud-mitigation features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Computer Science and Business Option, Honours Bachelor of Computer Science and Business Option at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
windows-gui10
mongodb10
electron10
mongodb-database10
macos9
rickshaw6
autotest6
node-module6
nodejs6
subdomain6
jquery6
routes6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb-js/compass
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
The GUI for MongoDB.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:73 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Waley primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of the MongoDB Compass GUI. Their work included changes to the cursor behavior in field lists, modifications to the menu for macOS, and the addition of a "Connect" menu item. They also addressed issues by reverting changes that broke the application and fixed issues related to a title change. Furthermore, they made the app a single instance application and added a menu item for "Compass Overview".
compassmongodbguimongoose-plugin
WaleyChen/mongo
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:46 pushes, 15 branches in 5 months
mongodatabasemongodbmongo-database
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