# Austin Chen

> Founding SE @ Rox

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

Feel free to contact me at austin12chen at gmail if you'd like talk!

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Rox
Jan 2024 – Present

### Neo Scholar @ Neo
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Founding Engineer @ Penguin AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
YC '22. AI-generated ads for enterprise CPG marketers. Did everything engineering related, and supported enterprise partners.

### Software Engineer @ Retool
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
GitHub SSO + Retool AI chat component

### Software Engineer @ Retool
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Implemented launch critical features on the Mobile team; worked with Typescript, ReactJS, React Native, Redux

### Founding Engineer @ MentalFit
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
A solution for managing the biological, psychological and social aspects of mental wellness through daily routines, progress tracking, and educational resources

### Software Engineer @ Root
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Constructed restful API services in a real-time communication app with exposure to HTTP and TCP/IP protocols. Worked with socket layer programming to optimize client-side updates and implemented a scalable microservice architecture with Azure CosmosDb for the persistence of non-relational data.

### Research Assistant @ Yale University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Built a deep learning pipeline for conversational group detection using the Deep Affinity Network (DANTE) and Dominant Sets clustering algorithm. Co-author of paper accepted to International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021)


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Yale University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austinchen12
- Website: https://austinchen.me

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Last updated: 2026-04-05