# Heather C.

> Product Engineer

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/heatherc

I am a people-first engineer with a wide range of experience from small early-stage startups to big tech. Skilled in full-stack development, product engineering, experimentation, and data science. Passionate about building meaningful and intuitive products, promoting healthy team cultures, and working in an organized manner (planning, JIRA, organized team drives, retros, etc). I thrive in highly collaborative environments that value direct communication, empathy, growth mindset, and diversity. 

In my free time, I love exploring cities, going to the farmer's market, learning about interior design, trying new restaurants, and making pottery. 

Side projects include:
Art: instagram.com/spaghetti.villa
Interior design (UC Berkeley Extension)

## Work Experience
### Full Stack Engineer @ Spoak
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
As a full-stack engineer, I led a variety of projects that improved both the product experience and the infrastructure quality at Spoak. Notable projects include building and shipping a redesigned Color Palette tool as a free tool for all users, programmatically de-duping low-quality vendors and duplicate vendors, and bringing the Shop List tool to Viz.

### ML Engineer II @ Twitter
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Onboarding Product (Growth): Signup flow, Who-to-follow account recommendations, finding and forming connections on Twitter

### ML Engineer II @ Twitter
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Feature Management team, Cortex

### ML Engineer I @ Twitter
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Feature Management Team, Cortex

### Director of Academic Development @ Data Science Society at Berkeley
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Taught data science workshops in Python, SQL, Jupyter Notebooks. Led committee of 8 to organize workshops throughout the semester.

### Student Sourcer @ TerningTheTable
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Reaching out to female interns in tech all across the country to empower and encourage them to share their experiences of working in tech.

Featuring students on our Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/terningthetable/

### Software Engineering Intern @ Twitter
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Foundational Platform Services, JVMTeam

### Lab Assistant @ Data 8 Course
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, CA
Data 8 is an introductory data science course offered at UC Berkeley. I assisted the lab section of 20+ students once a week to help with debugging and explaining concepts in math, data science, programming, and statistics in lab and homework assignments.

### Research and Data Analyst @ City Innovate Foundation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
As part of the Test and Learn Collider Support Team, I conducted research on transportation trends and mode choices among populations in major metropolitan areas to understand the most efficient ways to make public transportation a more popular, prominent, and accessible mode of transportation. In collaboration with the rest of the team, this work will ultimately be codified into a Playbook to be shared across 100 inclusive metro areas.

### Data Science Intern @ Hipcamp
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco

### Green Building Intern @ Building Sustainability at Cal
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | UC Berkeley
Green Building Interns provide services to renovation projects on campus to promote sustainability. This includes meeting with architects and engineers in the Office of Construction and Design and performing LEED evaluation on projects. Our organization also provides a Green Building Checklist to those projects that do not qualify for LEED, but still want to strive for sustainable practices. The Green Building Checklist is based off of LEED, Cal Green, and UC standards and helps promote sustainability on campus even for smaller-scale projects.

### Atmospheric Science Research Intern @ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greenbelt, MD

### Student Intern @ Archaeon Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Heliophysics Research Intern @ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Greenbelt, MD


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Applied Mathematics major, City Planning minor
University of California, Berkeley

### Interior Design
UC Berkeley Extension

### Thomas S. Wootton High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/heather-chen6

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Last updated: 2026-03-29