# Jian Ming Chen > CS @ MIT | Prev @ Meta, SingleStore Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jianmingchen We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. ## Work Experience ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2026 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 6.1800 / 6.033: Computer Systems Engineering - lead weekly recitations for of MIT (~30 students), teaching them about UNIX, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems problem-solving - help out with debugging and grading systems design labs and technical writing assignments ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Menlo Park, California, United States - Designed and built new frontend views to diagnose issues with allocating, utilizing, and tracking billions of dollars in capacity in Meta’s datacenters, and added tool support to query test environments for validating changes before production deployment - Drove the project direction for a new capacity investigation debugging view by partnering with stakeholders across multiple teams to define and prioritize features while directly integrating feedback into the core product design and actionable engineering goals ### Software Engineer @ SingleStore Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States - Built out data structures in C++ to handle multi-threading, memory management, and observability for database backups to AWS S3 to maximize parallelism for large backups while also allowing for user control and insight into the process - Created an internal library wrapping AWS S3 API operations with the engine’s protocols of handling errors, killing queries, and managing threads/memory - Tested in depth the implementation of multi-threading and locking mechanisms to avoid race conditions and memory corruption ### Generative AI Research Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Developed the frontend, backend, and database infrastructure of a webapp game that utilizes generative AI, language models, and text-to-image models to foster social experiences and facilitate conversations about personal values - Tested and evaluated the game to identify key research datapoints and possible new features to collect relevant data for research ### Full Stack Engineer @ Birth By Us Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 - Refactored Angular frontend into components to declutter the codebase and allow for more efficient implementations of features - Built out multiple CRUD operation features to add/edit user data, onboard new users, and improve user navigation UX ### Software Engineer @ SingleStore Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States - Built a feature with Go and React in the admin portal to automate deletion of user accounts by cleaning up data and handling relevant user attributes/metadata + created a button to automate the termination of a SingleStore organization - Implemented a new user settings page with features to allow users to self-leave an organization and delete their accounts - Created a backend PostgreSQL table/database with standard CRUD operations to ingest data into a pipeline for machine learning - Spec’d and added REST endpoints for operations available on the customer portal such as creating a folder or uploading a file - Wrote many unit and integration tests for both the frontend and backend features implemented to ensure code stability - Helped with bug fixes and smaller feature implementations by triaging Jira tickets ### Developer Advocate @ TigerGraph Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States - Built Developer Portal using a Vue.js/Quasar frontend combined with a TigerGraph Database + FastAPI backend to promote community engagement with a smooth user experience and created admin tools to manage the website, assets, and the members - Designed and implemented pipeline to clean and process AirBnB datasets, upload and map the data into a graph database, and run multiple GSQL queries to draw insights like sentiment analysis - Visualized the data conclusions from the AirBnB datasets using interactive charts created with Plotly in a React + Flask website - Researched and created a rudimentary CI/CD pipeline for TigerGraph GSQL with GitHub Actions and wrote a blog documenting integration steps for other developers to utilize and build on - Redesigned the TigerGraph Docs UI interface with a modern layout for better user experience and added more search filters ### Associate Support Specialist @ Box Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Redwood City, California, United States - Resolved over 1900 IT Help tickets in ServiceDesk/Jira involving issues concerning an array of mobile, desktop, audio/video, network, and telecommunications issues, ensuring that employees remain as productive as possible - Created knowledge base articles both internal to the team and employee-facing to promote proactivity in problem solving - Assisted in OKRs and major IT projects that improved team communications, company security, and office re-openings - Contributed to the rolling out of thousands of security keys by identifying priority employees and verifying integrity of security key assignments ### Fellow @ Intel Corporation and Hack the Hood Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 - Acquired elementary Python skills and Django fundamentals - Learned about Intersectional Tech Identity Development and Social Justice ### Young Professional @ Genesys Works - Bay Area Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Genesys Works is a professional development and college access program that empowers rising high school seniors through classroom training and a year-long paid internship. The initial eight week of summer training include: - Creating meaningful relationships with other Young Professionals - Learning Microsoft Excel to formulate complex conclusions from data - Consolidating soft skills and business knowledge for future internships - Acquiring knowledge in IT Support through Google's Coursera IT course ### Student Intern @ Tech Exchange Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Oakland, California, United States Helped exchange source high quality decommissioned technology from contributing partners, refurbish, and provide hardware to households across the Bay Area. ## Education ### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jianmc --- Source: https://flows.cv/jianmingchen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jianmingchen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-28