# Donald Chen

> Software Engineer at Sesame

Location: Moraga, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/donaldchen

I’m an Android software engineer who is passionate about building delightful user experiences.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Sesame
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Tech lead for embedded games platform project teams

### Senior Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Android engineer building core features of the Discord mobile app

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, California
Instagram Video Infra Team
- improved audio quality: https://instagram-engineering.com/improving-instagrams-music-audio-quality-284e555102e9
- improved visual quality and video loading latency
- supported product launches for Direct Voice Messages and IGTV Landscape Videos by building new player infra features

### Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Android development via technologies including: Java, RxJava, Dagger, and JUnit

Payments Team, Android Engineer (April 2017 - June 2018)
- Reduced fraud by leading in-app ride request address verification challenge project
- Enabled first international market launch by leading currency internationalization for Android features
- Improved UX by building the post-ride payment feature in the redesigned passenger app

Lyft for Business Team, Full-Stack Engineer (February 2016 - April 2017)
- Increased number of business rides by leading mandatory expense codes project
- Increased reliability of Concierge web portal by building a geocoding provider fallback system
- Supported the Lyft for Business web portal launch for organization admins

### Software Engineering Intern @ Indiegogo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Full stack developer for generosity.com (formerly life.indiegogo.com)
- Developed with Ruby on Rails and AngularJS to test drive features for Generosity by Indiegogo
- Increased funds raised by helping to make all fundraisers have no deadline
- Acquired more contributors by helping to build automatic Facebook sharing
- Increased user engagement by building email marketing features

### Pianist @ Mozaic Project
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Performed at Sliver Pizzeria in Berkeley three times.
Mixed and produced multiple recordings.
Created instrumental arrangements of pop songs.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Homestead High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/donald-chen-5b800925

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Last updated: 2026-04-10