Alex Chen
Senior software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable web applications. Currently leading the frontend platform team at Stripe, focused on payment infrastructure and developer tools. Previously at Google and two Y Combinator startups.
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
Lead frontend platform team of 6 engineers building the Stripe Dashboard. Architected the real-time payment monitoring system serving 100K+ merchants. Reduced dashboard load time by 40% through code splitting and edge caching. Technologies: React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Ruby
Software Engineer at Google
Built internal tools for the Google Cloud Platform team. Developed the GCP resource monitoring dashboard used by 5K+ engineers. Contributed to the Angular Material component library (12 components, 200+ PRs). Technologies: Angular, TypeScript, Go, Spanner
Founding Engineer at DataFlow (YC S17)
First engineer at a data pipeline startup (acquired by Confluent in 2020). Built the core ETL engine processing 50M events/day. Implemented the web-based SQL editor and query visualization tool. Technologies: Python, React, PostgreSQL, Kafka
BS Computer Science at Stanford University
Dean's List, GPA 3.8/4.0. Teaching Assistant for CS229 Machine Learning
OpenTracer — Open Source APM Tool
Distributed tracing library for Node.js microservices (2.3K GitHub stars). Featured in Node.js Weekly and JavaScript Rising Stars 2023.
BudgetBuddy — Personal Finance App
React Native app with 15K monthly active users. AI-powered expense categorization using OpenAI API.
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, Go, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
**Awards:** • Stripe Hack Week Winner 2023 — "PaymentGraph" real-time fraud visualization • Google Peer Bonus Award 2020 • HackMIT 2015 — 1st Place