Andrew Chen
Software Engineer at Figma
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Chen is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable front-end and back-end systems, currently contributing to AI Experiences and Search Quality at Figma. He has shipped production features at major tech firms including Apple, Amazon, Databricks, and Figma itself, with a track record of improving search relevancy, caching pipelines, and developer tooling. Comfortable across languages and stacks—from iOS and Go on personal projects to React/TypeScript, Ruby/Sinatra, Scala, and Python in production—he focuses on performance, testability, and measurable user impact. Notably, his work has enabled 10x faster backfills, reduced data-fetch latency by ~60x, and supported features used by hundreds of thousands of users. A Cornell CS graduate, he blends product-minded engineering with deep implementation experience and a penchant for automating developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Cornell University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
iphone8
swiftui7
swift6
custom-cell6
keychain6
image-viewer6
photo-browser6
video-player5
security5
ios5
pinch-to-zoom5
countdown4
tvos3
doc3
watchos3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apiapia/SpaceBattleSpriteKitGame
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
iFIERO -- TUTORIALS FOR IPHONE GAMES
Contributions:22 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
iphone
apiapia/BreakOutGameVansVTutorial
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Be Proud Of Developing Games
Contributions:15 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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