Summary
Walter Chen is a pragmatic software engineer with 13+ years building and scaling test and automation systems across consumer, browser, IoT, and embedded platforms. Currently a Software Engineer III at Google, he designs device automation, data-driven test infrastructure and cross-team tooling for Android and Assistant products, drawing on deep expertise in Python, UIAutomator, Espresso and CI/CD. His background includes performance profiling and dashboarding at Mozilla for Firefox and hands-on lab and virtualization work (Docker, VMware, Jenkins) for IoT and TV automation. Comfortable across layers from low-level device labs to web dashboards, he pairs rigorous test strategy with actionable analytics to improve product quality. Based in Taipei, he brings a history of stabilizing complex distributed test environments and an unusual knack for translating profiler output into clear operational improvements. Outside work his GitHub bio’s tongue-in-cheek nudge about browsers hints at a pragmatic, opinionated view of making the web better.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bacholar of Science, Bacholar of Science at National Chiao Tung University
University of California, Irvine
Japanese, English, Chinese, taiwanese mandarin, French, Japanese