Yuchang Chen
Software Engineer at Instagram
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuchang Chen is a Software Engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale systems for leading tech firms, currently working on core engineering at Instagram/Meta in New York. He combines a strong backend and data-processing background—from designing Kafka/Spark/HDFS pipelines during internships to production engineering at Amazon and Goldman Sachs—with graduate training in both Financial Engineering and Computer Science from NYU. Comfortable bridging finance and tech, he began his career writing algorithmic trading tools and later built financial modeling and analytics platforms, bringing an analytical, metrics-driven approach to product development. Known for working on high-throughput, distributed systems and performance testing, he favors pragmatic, data-informed solutions that scale.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Financial Engineering, 3.63, Master of Science - MS, Financial Engineering, 3.63 at New York UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Software Engineering, 3.56, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Software Engineering, 3.56 at South China University of Technology
Github Skills (16)
vagrant7
docker6
ansible6
ruby6
virtualization5
automation5
react4
flask4
behave4
python3
behavior-driven-development3
commerce3
ecommerce3
devops2
movie1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pinocchiochang/StockBigData
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
pinocchiochang/BrowserFamily_Version_Extractor
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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