# Daniel B. Chen

> Software Engineer at Figma

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

Engineer

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2023 – Present
Applied research

### Engineering Manager @ Impira
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Acquired by Figma in 2023

I managed the Core Product team at Impira, a full stack team responsible for all user facing features. My responsibilities included technical scoping, roadmap planning, recruiting, and people management.

### Engineering Manager @ Shift Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Listed on the Nasdaq in October 2020

I managed the Finance and Insurance team, a full stack team responsible for building Shift's financing and warranty product flows.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Shift Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, CA
Internet.org

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Irvine, CA
- Worked on backend of Device Assist mobile app, which recommends tips for using Google products
- Built data pipeline from an internal API to a distributed database using Go
- Wrote MapReduce borg job to aggregate user feedback for the app

### Research Intern @ Maryland Cybersecurity Center
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Wrote R script that uses clustering to detect cyber attacks in web server log files

### Software Engineering Intern @ University of Maryland CATTLab
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | College Park, MD
- Used Java and Spring MVC to code the backend of a RESTful web service that allows users to query for transportation-related information

### Research Intern @ Molecular Neurophysiology and Biophysics Unit, National Institutes of Health
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
- Studied the interaction between voltage-gated potassium channels and regulatory subunits
- Used ImageJ to distinguish different proteins in Western Blots
- Wrote research paper and presented project at annual Poster Day


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Economics
University of Maryland
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Montgomery Blair High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danielbchen
- Website: http://dchen7.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-23