# Ari Chen B.

> Software Engineer

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

5+ years of experience in web-based software development

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ TongliHR
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
• Built an API service with Django for payroll and hr system.  The api handled 100k+ employee payrolls and employment contract signings per month.
• Created bulk processing logic with Pandas to reduce number of database queries.  This relieved database deadlock issues and increased system throughput.
• Dockerized applications to standardize deployment processes and to support horizontal scalability.
• Deployed ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) on AWS and configured multiple backend services to feed logs to Logstash.  Achieved centralized logging, simplified debugging, and increased QA productivity.
• Implemented task queue with Celery and Redis to enable asynchronous jobs which improved user experience.  This also integrated standalone cronjob scripts into the service as periodic tasks.

### Software Engineer @ Outward, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Project team leader of a web CMS developed in Python, django, and MySQL which handled 15k requests per hour and managed more than 2 million records. Prioritized development and requirements
* Optimized program logic and enhanced throughput by more than 20x to relieve critical product bottleneck
* Revised inefficient database schema and optimized SQL queries which reduced response time by 10x
* Integrated message queue using Rabbitmq and Celery for asynchronous tasks to attain scalability
* Through code review, helped colleagues to tackle bugs and improve code quality and performance

### Mobile Software Engineer @ Next Mobile Limited
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Hong Kong
* Developed iOS apps in Objective-C for Hong Kong’s top news apps: NextPlus, Sudden+, ME!, Ketchuper
* Refactored large codebases and added new features. e.g. deep linking and push notification
* Operated as Scrum Master; worked with UX designer for better interaction flows

### Analyst Programmer @ Fujitsu Hong Kong Limited
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Hong Kong
* Provided POC on iOS/Android and project estimation for potential mobile app projects
* Developed Bluetooth data transfer functionality in HK 2016 Population Census Android app

### Programmer @ Ideaslab
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Hong Kong
* Developed website frontend and backend with Python, django, HTML, CSS, Javascript/ jQuery
* Developed native iOS and Android apps in the fields of health management (Bluetooth smart device compatible), music social networking, and kiosk software. Worked on Core Bluetooth, CorePlot, Cocos2D/3D, and RESTful API


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History
National Taiwan University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29