# Frank Chen

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/frank

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## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Viant Technology
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech stacks: OpenAI Agents SDK, RAG, Google Cloud, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, React.

· Innovating with "AI Planner" – an AI-powered strategic campaign planning tool (OpenAI Agents SDK, RAG, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, React) designed for programmatic campaign managers and media strategists. It enables users to leverage AI to get predictive insights and streamline the planning phase, create, assess, and manage media plans efficiently.
· Pioneering "AI Measurement" – an AI-powered analytical campaign performance measurement tool (OpenAI Agents SDK, RAG, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, React) designed for advertisers, programmatic traders, and data analysts. It enables users to leverage AI to get real-time insights into key performance metrics, answer campaign questions quickly and generate custom data reports for deeper performance analysis.
· Developing a Google BigQuery data exploration web application (Go, Java, JavaScript/Typescript), improving data analysts' efficiency by simplifying complex data operations such as querying, creation, sharing, sorting, and grouping.
· Building a Google BigQuery ETL workflow automation web application (Go, Java, JavaScript/Typescript) that automates Big Data lifecycle for data engineers, including ingestion, processing, analysis, and enables advanced reporting and alerting mechanisms.

### Software Engineering Manager @ TigerGraph
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
· Spearheaded the development of a scalable ETL web application (Go, Kafka Connector, Typescript, Angular) for real-time data processing from multiple sources, including Kafka, Amazon S3, and Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage, aligning with high-availability and multi-region deployment standards.
· Orchestrated the development of a data exploration web application (Go, Typescript, Angular) that empowered data analysts to navigate complex connected data relationships in real-time, enhancing data-driven decision-making process, without having to learn a query language.
· Directed the development of a query IDE web application (Go, Typescript, Angular), enabling data scientists to efficiently develop, debug, and execute database queries with an intuitive visualization of interconnected data results, supporting real-time analytical tasks.
· Championed the development of a metadata management web application (Go, Typescript, Angular), facilitating data scientists in architecting and managing schemas for interconnected datasets, optimizing the organizational data structure.
· Managed the entire software development life cycle, including agile project planning, requirements gathering, design, development, unit/component/end-to-end testing, code reviews, and Cloud deployment.
· Instrumented user data tracking and building product analytics dashboard to make informed product decisions.
· Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product management, product UX/UI design, quality assurance, technical support, and customer success to ensure the successful software delivery, resolve issues effectively.
· Coached 6 direct reports (3 fulltime and 3 interns) to help them achieve career goals and improve their performance.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree. Graduated with Distinction / cum laude / top 25% of the class.
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/frank-y-chen

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Last updated: 2026-03-20