Summary
Will Chen is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling adtech and consumer fintech systems, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Credit Karma in San Francisco. He progressed through multiple engineering management roles at Credit Karma, bringing hands-on experience from earlier technical and staff engineering positions at TapSense where he led RTB integrations, mobile SDKs, and AWS-based infrastructure. Will excels at translating product and business requirements into reliable technical solutions, having designed retargeting and probabilistic user-attribute systems and led cross-functional teams through complex migrations. Known for increasing team efficiency through disciplined planning and mentorship, he blends deep systems engineering chops with a product-focused mindset. Notably, his background spans both low-level SDK delivery and higher-level orchestration of distributed services, giving him breadth across the stack.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of California, Davis
English, Chinese