Zhenhua Chen
Founder Independent Industrial Designer & Product Developer at Built by Zhen
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhenhua Chen is an independent designer and product thinker based in California with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience blending industrial design, macOS development, and systems automation. He builds “calm, low-noise” digital and physical products—most recently Wallity, a privacy-conscious, RAM-only macOS wallpaper utility engineered in Swift and AppKit to minimize friction and memory use. His background spans CAD engineering for electrical distribution hardware at Schneider Electric and IGE+XAO/ETAP to hands-on product work and CMF-driven home decor launches, giving him uncommon fluency between component-level engineering and user-facing aesthetics. On the engineering side he contributes to open-source infrastructure like Apache Linkis, automating license and build workflows and reinforcing deployment reliability. A Stanford product management certificate and MA/BFA in industrial design inform his practice: pragmatic, research-led, and attuned to emotional stillness in product experience. He’s focused on shipping small, well-crafted systems that reduce cognitive noise while solving concrete user and manufacturing problems.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Arts - MA Industrial and Product Design, Master of Arts - MA Industrial and Product Design at Savannah College of Art and DesignStanford University Product Management Program — Professional Certificate, Stanford University Product Management Program — Professional Certificate at Stanford University School of Engineering
English, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
scripting10
bash10
apache10
automation10
script10
sh10
automations10
shell10
web-content9
webpages9
nginx9
docker8
postinstall8
installers8
installer8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/linkis
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Apache Linkis builds a computation middleware layer to facilitate connection, governance and orchestration between the upper applications and the underlying data engines.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 20 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Zhenhua primarily focused on automating the process of removing and adding licenses across various file types within the Apache Linkis project. This involved creating and utilizing a shell script (`modify_license.sh`) to update licenses in Java, Scala, XML, JavaScript, SCSS, properties, and Vue files. Additionally, the user developed scripts for regenerating dependencies and modifying the web application's installation process and configuration, indicating a strong emphasis on automation and build/deployment processes. The user also worked on fixing an issue related to the command "ip addr".
middlewaresqlsparkhivepyspark
iture123/easyUtil
Dec 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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