# Dennis Chen

> engineering@twelve

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dennischen1

hello :]

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ Twelve
Jan 2024 – Present

### Lead Software Engineer @ Proof (formerly Notarize)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
Led the Real Estate engineering team that worked on features for Lenders and Title agencies.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Proof (formerly Notarize)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Proof (formerly Notarize)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Software Engineer focusing primarily on front-end development with backend projects here and there. Currently using React, Apollo and Ruby.

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Littleton, MA
Part of a Cognitive Incubator team that investigates/implements available cognitive technologies, like those from Watson, and leverages them for other IBM products. The team is enhancing IBM's collaboration portfolio by incorporating NLP and machine learning technology through our services.

Specifically, I work on rapid prototype development for new ideas that will help make customers work more efficiently.
• Implemented an Angular/NodeJS application that takes a user's text and classifies/analyzes it using Watson's Natural Language Classifier
• Incorporated an initial action identification service within IBM's Watson Workspace using ReactJS
• Created an application that allows our users to give feedback so that the classifier that is used has more data to consume and learn from
• Presented to different teams across the organization to share the results of our work
• Closely worked with interns, guided their project and reviewed their code

Most recently, my team created Cognitive as a service for Watson Workspace and I developed the UI for one of it's main features, Moments.

### Software Developer Intern @ IBM Commerce
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Littleton, MA
• Participated in code reviews and daily scrum meetings
• Worked with a team on overhauling IBM Emptoris’ Login workflows
• Learned AngularJS, Grunt, Bootstrap and REST APIs to design and develop a
responsive and mobile-first page for IBM customers to fully customize

### Intern @ MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Lexington, MA
• Contributed to the Cyber Systems and Technology group with a team
• Worked on DARPA’s CRASH Project to investigate and assess two new programming
languages (Breeze and HAILS) and their use of information flow control (IFC)
• Co-drafted the paper You Sank My Battleship that was submitted to the Programming
Languages and Analysis for Security Workshop (PLAS 2014)
• Designed and implemented several example applications with security policies


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Tufts University

### Wellesley High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31