# Allison Chen

> Senior Software Engineer at Smartcar

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/allisonchen

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Smartcar
Jan 2021 – Present

### Software Engineer II @ Smartcar
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Smartcar
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Technical Mentor @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineering Fellow - Lead Teaching Assistant @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Mentored 37 software engineers over the course of an advanced software engineering immersive
• Conducted targeted 1:1 meetings and code reviews with students to correct broken mental models
• Lead group review sessions to improve understanding of materials and ensure technical readiness

### Full-stack Developer @ Cloudbnb (project)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco
• Designed modular and dynamic components with React and created an algorithm that dynamically renders an interactive calendar component based on current user inputs 
• Established an automated testing workflow using CircleCI and Jest/Enzyme
• Containerized my microservice using Docker and deployed to AWS EC2 for integration with other Cloundbnb microservices

Tech Stack: 
React | Node.js | Express | MySQL | Jest/Enyzme | Webpack | Docker | AWS/EC2

github.com/devdivas/bookings

youtu.be/N581dMcag7c

### Backend Software Engineer @ AirSDC (project)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco
• Increased throughput in production by 300% to 1500 RPS with a latency of 25ms using horizontally scaled Node/Express servers behind an Elastic Load Balancer
• Reduced latency of queries to a Postgres database with over 10M primary records from 90s to 10ms
• Utilized Redis caching with a LFU eviction strategy to decrease time querying the database by 50% 


Tech Stack: 
Node.js | Express | PostgreSQL | Redis | AWS EC2 | AWS Elastic Load Balancing | Loader.io | Siege.js | New Relic

github.com/airSDC/Reviews-Service

### Intern @ LightBridge Hospice
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Diego
• Processed over 150 patient admissions and coordinated communication between patients, hospitals, and  RCFEs/SNFs/home care agencies
• Created reference materials for future interns to centralize our documentation and streamline onboarding process

### Lab Assistant @ The Scripps Research Institute
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
• Studied the relationship between lysophosphatidic acid exposure and the development of hydrocephalus in embryonic mouse brains
• Used advanced microscopy techniques and next-generation RNA ISH to validate data generated from single-cell sequencing for an article published in Science


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

### Hack Reactor


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/allichen

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Last updated: 2026-03-20