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Stephen Chen

@st-chen

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Senior software engineer specializing in scalable web, mobile, and cloud-native solutions.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles building scalable web/mobile products with strong engineering practices, CI/CD, cloud-native architectures, and opportunities to mentor and drive measurable product impact.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years building high-performance web and mobile applications, combining deep frontend expertise in React/React Native with backend and systems experience in Node.js and Go. I deliver scalable, maintainable platforms, lead CI/CD and cloud-native initiatives, and mentor engineers to improve velocity and reliability.

My work has improved deployment times, increased test coverage, and reduced user friction across products in fintech, enterprise consulting, and consumer apps. I focus on pragmatic engineering—replatforming legacy tools, designing event-driven microservices, and shipping polished user experiences that measurably impact business metrics.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

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Boston Consulting Group

May 2022 - Present (3 years 8 months)

Developed high-performance web and mobile client applications, rebuilt legacy tools into a unified platform, and optimized CI/CD pipelines to reduce deployment time by 70% while increasing test coverage to 85%.

React Next.js TypeScript React Native Jest GitHub Actions Terraform AWS Go

Full Stack Engineer

Coinbase

Nov 2020 - Apr 2022 (1 year 5 months)

Built secure trading flows and internal admin tools, improved mean order placement time by 18% and increased service uptime to 99.98% through resilient API integrations and backend refactors.

React TypeScript GraphQL Go MongoDB gRPC Kafka Web3.js

Full Stack Developer

Cheddar Flow

Sep 2019 - Oct 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Developed real-time options flow dashboard and data ingestion services, reduced frontend bundle size by 28% and frontend bugs by 20% through TypeScript migration and build optimizations.

React Redux TypeScript D3.Js WebSockets PostgreSQL Webpack Redis

Frontend Developer

ChowNow

Apr 2016 - Aug 2019 (3 years 4 months)

Built and improved the online ordering platform and reusable UI component library, implemented multi-step checkout and PWA features that increased conversion funnel completion by 12%.

React Redux Storybook Stripe React Native TypeScript WebSockets SCSS

Software Developer

Bloomfire

Feb 2015 - Mar 2016 (1 year 1 month)

Implemented content collaboration features and admin tools, improved API response efficiency by 20% and built analytics dashboards using D3.js and MySQL.