# Beck Chen

> Staff Software Engineer @ Google Gemini

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

Passionate about building meaningful things with new technologies and smart people.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Gemini personalization
Gemini tool use & agents

### Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
Gemini, App Actions, Assistant Developer Platform

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, CA
Actions on Google

### Venture Scout @ UpHonest Capital
Jan 2021 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead @ Orbital Insight
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California
- Developed the end-to-end pipeline that handles data ingestion, deep learning inference, and predictive analytics for Orbital Consumer, a SaaS product for tracking foot traffic at major US retailers by analyzing satellite imagery at scale.
- Scaled the pipeline to handle TB-scale satellite imagery and 100K+ monitoring locations per day. Migrated it to a micro batching architecture, utilizing Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration and resource management, to improve cost-efficiency and scalability.
- Provided technical leadership to a team of engineers, data scientists, and data annotators. Collaborated closely with customer success, product management, and other engineering teams to iterate on the product at a fast pace.

### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, CA
- Developed key components of Palantir Foundry, company’s marquee data integration and analytics platform.
- Worked closely with a Fortune 500 company to integrate and analyze terabytes of business data with Python and SQL, and built web-based applications for enterprise stakeholders to improve operational efficiency.

### Software Developer Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA
- Involved in the development and automated deployment of a computational framework for tabular data on top of Apache Spark.

### Software Developer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Seattle, WA
- Worked on the AWS Data Services team. 
- Prototyped a distributed real-time data processing system for log aggregation using Kafka and Storm.


## Education
### Master of Computer Science in Computer Science
Rice University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Rice University

### Nanjing Foreign Language School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/beckchen
- GitHub: https://github.com/meditativeape

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Last updated: 2026-04-12