# Daniel Chen

> Senior Software Engineer | AI, ML & Full-Stack Systems

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielchen

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ Null Games
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
- Sole engineer responsible for end-to-end full-stack development of internal tools
- Architected, designed, and implemented NextJS application for data scraping/visualization, as well as an internal forum system for receiving and reviewing pitched game submission
- Collaborated directly with stakeholders to develop project vision and goals, allowing for rapid iteration

### Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Beacons
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Built an email spam detection system utilizing ChatGPT, unblocking company’s email product
- Designed and implemented machine learning pipeline for detecting users of interest
- Architected infrastructure for internal web scraping service

### Co-founder @ biro
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
- Founded a company that worked on telerobotics system
- Created VR application for displaying point cloud from 3D camera system over the internet
- Modified 6dof robot software to handle accepting control commands remotely
- Implemented remote operation of 6dof robot using the HTC Vive
- Coded inverse kinematics for robot arm

- Pivoted to automation of medical document processing
- Developed and implemented ML pipeline for document classification
- Created an Electron app for auditing and labeling inference results

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cruise Automation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
- Architected and implemented systems for making driving decisions
- Led initiatives for investigating determinism and improving runtime in planning stack
- On-boarded senior engineers and regularly conducted coding interviews
- Regularly led efforts to diagnose and fix complex issues on tight deadlines

### Software Engineer @ Cruise Automation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California
- Worked on the planning team
- Developed algorithm that determines trajectory of all unprotected left turns
- Created a more robust lane changing system by identifying weaknesses of existing system and creating a new feature
- Designed and implemented a system for determining the regions for which the car would identify and track objects

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Champaign, IL
- Led 11 other teaching assistants tasked with lab instruction and course material development in Spring 2016
- Provided instruction and debugging assistance on SystemVerilog laboratory assignments, including RISC processor designs and System-on-Chip implementations with USB/VGA interfaces

### Solid State Electronics Development Intern @ Boeing
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Huntington Beach, CA
- Debugged a scan chain for an ARM processor and developed a Python script to allow for easy injection of test vectors
- Designed and implemented a Python script that allowed for automated task handoffs between users working on sequential portions of a verification/synthesis project.

### Electronics Prototyping Intern @ Boeing
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | St. Louis, MO
- Enhanced testbench capabilities for a DMA IP Core to allow for input of datasets from text files. Also increased the word size for memory writes
- Designed and implemented prototypes of UAV radio communications system
- Drafted technical drawings of testing enclosure for UAV radio unit

### Undergraduate Researcher @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Champaign, IL
Researched use of FPGAs in accelerating various algorithms for short read alignment

### Electronic Systems Engineering Intern @ Boeing
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Everett, WA
Primary role was to support the KC-46 Tanker's audio system through logic design and lab testing. Also performed interface document updates, schematic investigations, and lab testing to support 737/767/787 engineering efforts

### Student Researcher @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Champaign, IL
Explored alternative energy solutions for portable computing


## Education
### Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dchen9x

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Last updated: 2026-03-23