# Amy C.

> Senior Software Engineer at Discord

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/amyc

Striving to learn as much as I can about everything and anything I can, to observe and listen, and, in response, to do good.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Founder / Solo Dev @ Ollie Studio Lab
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Designed and built a consumer software-as-a-service product for saving and sharing collections of anything online (React, Next.js, JS, TS, Firebase, AWS Lambda, AWS Cloudfront, Stripe, Tailwind).
- Participated in PearVC's Female Founder Circles.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Dorsia
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote
- first in-house engineering hire
- set up segment + mixpanel analytics events for a react native app
- facilitated onboarding of a second dev shop into the team
- wrote onboarding welcome documents, READMEs of existing code, and set up PR review processes to encourage code consistency across multiple teams
- interviewed candidates and reevaluated engineering hiring processes and goals

### Software Engineer IV @ Alto Pharmacy
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Worked across two web apps and a mobile app on the Providers Team (React, React Native, Ruby on Rails)

Web: led two projects and played key roles in building three features to support provider needs (React,
Ruby on Rails, JS, Flow, Storybook).

Mobile: worked with a team of four to build a new app. Wrote multiple screens and components for the
app and component library. Presented work in a public-facing tech talk (React Native, Storybook, JS, TS).

Recruiting: coordinated Alto's sponsorship, recruiting, and attendance at TAPIA 2021. Wrote a post for the engineering blog. Conducted intro calls and coffee chats with potential candidates.

### Software Engineer III @ Alto Pharmacy
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Teaching Assistant (Social Computing) @ Stanford University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Stanford, California, United States

### Teaching Assistant (Web Applications) @ Stanford University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Teaching Assistant (Introduction to Computer Graphics) @ Stanford University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Stanford, CA

### Software Engineering Intern @ One Concern
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, CA
— Took ownership of two new features on the Seismic product, working on every component of the stack (Ruby on Rails, JS, Python, NodeJS, Mapbox, PostgreSQL). 
— Presented a new feature at a Town Hall and to a client. 
— Coordinated with data science, design, and customer success to define objectives and complete features in time for product demo deadlines. 
— Discovered and fixed bugs on the Seismic product.

### Teaching Assistant (Social Computing) @ Stanford University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Stanford, CA

### Director @ Stanford Spoken Word Collective
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Stanford, CA

### Software Engineering Intern @ eBay
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, CA
— Wrote user-centric timers measuring perceived load and response on Search.
— Wrote a Chrome Developer Tools Extension providing insight into the above times (See Speedi!).
— 1st place in eBay’s Intern Hackathon: Presented at All Hands and to CEO. Identified
and proposed solution to issue affecting women of color on the site. Team of eight (See Filter Your Cart by Color).
— 3rd place in eBay’s Hack Week: Proposed branding strategy focusing on small
businesses with relevant UI components (See Shop by Store).

### Undergraduate Community Board Member @ Stanford Women in Computer Science
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Stanford, CA

### Editor In Chief @ Leland Quarterly
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Stanford, CA

### Intern @ Acxiom
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Redwood City, CA
Focus: research, UI/UX, prototyping

### Undergraduate Research Intern in Computer Science @ Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Stanford, CA
Interface for device-free human-drone interaction. Users made hand gestures to select
landmarks on a map for a personalized drone-led tour (3DR Solo, Processing, OpenCV). 
— Wrote script directing drone movement (takeoff, go to selected destinations, land).
— Wrote Processing program that interprets user gestures via Structure sensor-tocomputer
TCP socket, updating a map/guide interface accordingly.

### Student Columnist @ Lake Oswego Review
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Lake Oswego, Oregon
Writes a monthly column for the city newspaper.

### Editor-in-chief @ Reflections, the Arts and Literary Magazine of LOHS
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Lake Oswego High School


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science (Real-World Computing)
Stanford University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction Track), Art Minor
Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### Lake Oswego Senior High School
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amyjchen
- Website: https://www.amyjchen.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29