Erinna Chen
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolErinna Chen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience bridging scientific research and production software, currently building at GitHub. Trained as a planetary scientist with a PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences, she specializes in translating complex mathematics into high-performance code and maintaining legacy parallel Fortran and C systems for distributed-memory simulations. A pragmatic polyglot, she favors the right tool for the job and is actively exploring Elixir/Phoenix, Clojure, and blockchain technologies while remaining fluent in Ruby and Fortran. Her background in tidal dynamics and spacecraft data analysis gives her a unique lens on scalability and numerical correctness in large codebases. A Turing School graduate, she enjoys mentoring newcomers, collaborating with thoughtful teams, and discussing everything from lunar history to system design.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Web Application Development with Ruby, Rails and JavaScript, Certificate in Web Application Development with Ruby, Rails and JavaScript at Turing School of Software & DesignUniversity of California Santa CruzBachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
Github Skills (42)
shortcuts10
decorator10
viewcomponent10
shortcut9
software-design9
boto9
eslint9
hotkeys9
partials9
ruby-on-rails8
trigger8
pdf-specification8
polyfills8
aws8
javascript8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
erinnachen/all_the_coins
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 months
adriennedomingus/bubble_bobble
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:79 commits, 37 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 month
reacttraditional8bitbubbleredux
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