# Elliot Chen > VP of Product, co-founding engineer @ OXIO Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/elliotchen Experienced product manager and leader with a strong engineering background. Specializing in startups, B2B2C, and international markets. Expertise in cloud technologies and modern tools, driving product strategy, and execution. Skilled in engaging with C-level executives, board members, and senior leaders to ensure stakeholder alignment. Accomplishments include leading product and engineering efforts to secure raising capital across three funding rounds, scaling a company from inception to meeting target ARR objectives and expanding into multiple countries. Proven track record of delivering ambitious roadmaps aligned to client and end user needs on time, meeting quality standards, and navigating high-impact projects in dynamic, rapidly changing environments. ## Work Experience ### VP of Product, Co-founding Engineer @ OXIO Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States OXIO is the world’s first telecom-as-a-service platform, allowing brands to build and manage mobile networks for their customers or machines. Today, OXIO has activated millions of SIM cards, both for consumers and M2M, across US, Mexico, and piloting in the rest of LatAm. * Led global product strategy and roadmap, driving expansion into multiple countries, including the US, and ensuring alignment with client and end-user needs in a B2B2C product, resulting in client launches and meeting ARR objectives * Secured major client signings pre-launch, directly contributing to revenue at go-live and strengthening client engagement for sustained growth * Managed and led 6 cross-functional teams across three product lines, directly managing 8 product managers, designers, and QA, as well as overseeing 40+ engineers * Created a program that trained all new hires to become product experts within 30 days, boosting employee engagement and productivity across a 100+ person team * Elected by peers company-wide as Model Employee (2024) for cross-functional leadership and impact ### Head of Product Engineering @ OXIO Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater New York City Area * Led the development of BrandVNO, a groundbreaking self-service SaaS platform in the telecom industry, enabling full control over networks without carrier limitations for the first time * Successfully launching an enterprise customer with 100,000+ activations, balancing feature demand with a unified platform vision * Led the implementation of our first design system * Hired, built, managed, and grew a cross-functional team of Product Managers and Designers, ensuring alignment of three product with strategic goals Integrated the first telecom carrier, enhancing technical capabilities and expanding market presence * Pioneered the adoption of CI/CD practices on core telecom equipment, improving deployment frequency and system reliability in a traditionally rigid industry, measured through implementation of data analytics tools ### Founding Software Engineer @ OXIO Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area * Co-founder and key contributor to MVP development, coding and deploying infrastructure, leading to first revenue and validated product-market fit within 10 months * Designed initial wireframes and UI/UX, architected and built scalable microservice infrastructure using Go, AWS (CloudFormation, ECS, R53), and Docker for robust deployment and scalability * Developed a decentralized NFT-based mobile data exchange on the Stellar blockchain (2018), enabling secure data transactions; live in Mexico City * Led end-to-end technical design and deployment, optimizing performance and user experience * Coordinated on-the-ground launch in Mexico City, supporting staff and resolving operational as well as technical issues ### DevOps Engineer @ Aquto Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area Aquto uses data as a form of currency to improve engagement between marketers and consumers. By completing actions, such as watching ads, consumers would gain extra mobile data. * Managed and maintained a multi-datacenter environment (AWS and OpenStack) in an on-call rotation Migrated from CentOS 6 to 7 and transitioned from Puppet to SaltStack * Rebuilt the on premises OpenStack datacenter by migrating to AWS ### Software Engineer Internship @ Aquto Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 * Day-to-day: Collaborated with the engineering team on back end (Scala/Akka) and front end (JavaScript, underscore, Backbone, jQuery) * Special project: Rebuilt the ETL data pipeline with Luigi and Amazon Redshift; handled deployments and migrations ### Junior Developer @ Pegways Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Worked both on the front-end and back-end of the cloud based platform technology platform http://www.pegfect.com/ using c#, JavaScript, HTML/CSS ### Software Developer Internship @ Makoa Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Paris Area, France ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 ### Computer Software Engineering Ewha Womans University 이화여자대학교 Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ### High School Diploma in Engineering Science Lycée International de Paris Honoré de Balzac Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chenelliot --- Source: https://flows.cv/elliotchen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/elliotchen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20