Kay Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKay Chen is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience delivering mobile-first software across startups and large-scale platforms. At Uber since 2019, she serves as a Mobile Engineer in Marketplace Experience & Platform, shaping reliable, scalable user experiences for a high-traffic ride-hailing ecosystem. Her background spans iOS and Android development (Swift, Kotlin) at Apartment List, NuORDER, and earlier roles, combining frontend UI finesse with robust backend integration. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California, reflecting a foundation in both systems and software design. Kay embraces hands-on hacking and continuous learning, infusing curiosity into production code and team mentorship. Based in the Bay Area, she brings cross-disciplinary expertise from Ruby on Rails early work to modern mobile development, with a focus on pragmatic, impactful solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Computer Engineering at University of Southern California
English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
uipageviewcontroller9
paging8
refresh7
scroll7
toolbar6
controller6
ios5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
xkay/xkay-rails
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
bluwolf/ice-breakers-and-small-projects
May 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:15 pushes in 1 year
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