# Emily Chen

> Senior Software Engineer at Wealthsimple

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emilychen2

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Wealthsimple
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Backend Engineer @ Tally
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
- Senior Backend Engineer on the Platform Engineering team responsible for larger architectural decisions, internal libraries used by other backend engineers, and ingesting and aggregating financial data from multiple 3rd-party sources
- Led and implemented a project to automate manual fraud checks by integrating with a 3rd-party vendor, resulting in guaranteed fraud checks for 100% of users and near real-time detection of potentially fraudulent users. Balanced trade- offs of cost, required manual intervention, and potential for harmful fraudulent activity
- Migrated daily jobs from a legacy batch implementation to a reactive, event-based approach backed by SQS queues that significantly improved job speed as well as monitoring and observability. 94% of jobs were migrated without any issues and the new jobs ran 4x faster than the legacy jobs. Job-related incidents decreased by 80% post-migrations

### Senior Android Developer @ Tally
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Led a project to integrate a 3rd-party SDK into a crucial part of the onboarding flow. Worked closely with Backend Engineers, PMs, Designers, and Data Analysts to scope the project and break it down into smaller milestones and imple- mentable pieces and then worked on the integration alongside another Android engineer
- Interviewed candidates and onboarded new engineers to the team, ramping them up on ongoing projects as well as incorporating their suggestions and ideas for new processes and code patterns
- Developed a feature to allow users to view their statements in-app, which was completed on-time and bug-free

### Android Developer @ Tally
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Maintained a >99% crash-free user rate for the Android app
- Introduced custom lint checks to shorten the developer feedback loop and standardize code base best practices

### Software Engineer (Android) @ Mango Health
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led Android team and worked closely with product, design, and back-end teams to develop new features 
- Led development of Community feature, redesign of Add Med flow, and Onboarding revamp
- Initiated and conducted migration to MVVM architecture
- Mentored and taught other engineers about Android development principles
- Improved test suite coverage by writing unit and UI tests using JUnit and Espresso
- Mango Health acquired by TrialCard in September 2019

### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Pomona College
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Claremont, CA
- Served as Head TA for Data Structures
- Held weekly mentor sessions, TAed during lab sessions and graded assignments
- Previously TAed for Discrete Mathematics and Linear Algebra

### Software Engineer Intern @ Mango Health
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Revamped the splash screen sequence and developed new features that allow users to refill meds and view the meds associated with each pharmacy for the Android app
- Researched testing tools such as Appium, Xamarin, and Espresso to help implement automated UI testing
- KPCB Engineering Fellow

### Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Selected as one of 58 Engineering Fellows out of almost 2,500 applicants

### Teaching Assistant @ Girls Who Code
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Twitter HQ, San Francisco Bay Area
- Taught 20 junior and senior girls in high school who had little to no experience with computer science
- Taught Scratch, Python, OOP, robotics, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript throughout an intensive 7-week program
- Identified students’ areas of weakness and provided one-on-one support to students as needed
- Mentored students on professional and personal levels

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Rice University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Professor Michael Kohn's Lab
- Worked on a bioinformatics/comparative genomics project studying the evolution of the house mouse genome, particularly the distribution and migration of mutated genes
- Wrote Python scripts for SimuPOP, a forward-time population genetics simulator


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science
Pomona College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emilychen8

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Last updated: 2026-04-05