David Chen
Software Engineer at Oscar Health
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Chen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems from front-end UIs to backend integrations, currently contributing at Oscar Health in the NYC/Jersey City area. He has a strong track record at Citi where he modernized a monolithic AngularJS app into modular Angular components and built Java Spring Boot/Volante APIs linking to SWIFT that cut review times from hours to seconds and saved roughly $300k annually. Comfortable owning prototypes and projects end-to-end, he has driven greenfield initiatives and improved team efficiency by up to 25%. Early work includes open-source tooling for bioinformatics parsers and hands-on front-end development for large-scale event sites, demonstrating a blend of practical engineering and community-minded contributions. Based on Rutgers Computer Science, he brings a pragmatic, results-focused approach and a knack for translating complex financial and healthcare requirements into reliable, maintainable software.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rutgers University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (27)
npm10
css10
javascript9
frontend9
chrome-extension8
chrome7
github-api7
scrape7
backend6
travelling-salesman-problem6
lambda6
parser6
python6
ebnf6
oauth-provider5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HackRU/hackru-sp17-website
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
davidchen/rutgers-soc-api
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
A tool built to scrape and insert data from the Rutgers' Schedule of Classes every semester into an API.
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
scrape
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