Yizhe Chen
Staff Software Engineer (Android) at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYizhe Chen is a Staff Android Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years building consumer-facing mobile experiences and modernizing legacy codebases. He has led cross-functional teams at Meta (including a secret camera/AOSP project) and previously incubated 0-to-1 features at Instagram and growth-led platform work at shopkick. Yizhe combines deep Android platform expertise—performance, cold-start and APK-size optimization, client logging and attribution—with hands-on delivery of AR/ camera pipelines and reliability for effects across large social apps. He holds an MSIT (Mobility) from Carnegie Mellon and enjoys turning "super legacy" systems into maintainable, modern stacks while keeping product quality and user experience front and center.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, MSIT-Mobility track, Master's Degree, MSIT-Mobility track at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (37)
kotlin10
matcher10
testing10
verification10
stimulusjs10
java10
tdd10
sql10
turbo10
mocking10
hadoop9
debug9
sql-query9
spark9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jijichen/qmk_firmware
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
rp2040nrf52840firmwareavratmel
jijichen/LaunchPuzzle
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:73 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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