Avery Chen
Senior Product Engineer
San Francisco, CA•avery.chen@email.com•(415) 555-0142•averychen.dev•linkedin.com/in/averychen•github.com/averychen
Summary
Product-minded engineer with 8 years shipping high-scale consumer software. Led a 6-person platform team that cut checkout latency 42% and drove $4.1M incremental ARR.
Experience
Senior Product Engineer: Northwind
Mar 2022 - Present
San Francisco, CA
- Rebuilt the checkout pipeline in TypeScript and Go, cutting p95 latency 42% across 3.4M monthly sessions.
- Led a 6-engineer squad through a payments migration with zero customer-facing downtime.
- Introduced experiment tooling now used by 40+ engineers, lifting conversion 11%.
Software Engineer: Lumen Labs
Jul 2019 - Feb 2022
Remote
- Shipped a React design system adopted across 9 product surfaces.
- Reduced build times 63% by moving CI to incremental caching.
Education
B.S. in Computer Science
University of Washington • Seattle, WA • Magna Cum Laude, 3.8 GPA
2019
Skills
Professional: Team leadership • Technical writing • Mentoring
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect - Professional: Amazon Web Services · ID AWS-PSA-88213
Jan 2024 - Jan 2027
Projects
Driftwood: github.com/averychen/driftwood
Open-source migration runner with 1.8k stars.
Languages
English (Native) • Mandarin (Conversational)