# Johnny Chen

> iOS and Android Engineer + UX Designer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/johnnychen3

I delight in combining my design and engineering experience to build compelling products, especially for a mission I care about.

My career started at an IDEO internship and has included stints in Singapore and Japan. Then I was at Motorola for 9 years, where I led Android teams.

With 20 years of experience in software and 7 years of design, I know I’m most valuable when I apply both skills to create and ship products.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Clever Inc.
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Interaction Designer @ Idean
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designed dozens of digital experiences across multiple industries. Particularly strong in working with engineers and product managers to ship software products.

### Interaction Designer @ Idean
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, CA

### Engineering Manager, Android Applications @ Motorola
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, CA
Led contacts, social-networking and homescreen-widget application teams.  Shipped and helped code multiple applications from the Verizon Droid to the Moto X.  Frequently chosen to drive company-wide engineering initiatives.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Motorola
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | Sunnyvale, CA
Authored the contacts application shipping on early Motorola Android phones. Developed three versions of the client-server features of Screen3, a news-ticker application: J2ME, LinuxJava (C++) and Android

### Senior Software Engineer @ Vocent Solutions
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | Mountain View, CA
Developed and shipped cryptography features in Vocent’s voice-authentication server product.

### Software Engineer @ Xtime Inc.
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 | San Mateo, CA
Developed features of Xtime's server product, as well as a speech-recognition application for Xtime's web-based reservation product.

### Product Manager @ Silkroute Ventures in Singapore
Jan 1999 – Jan 2000
Managed the development and deployment of a semiconductor auction site.  Separately, designed and implemented a Java-based, consumer WAP portal

### Product Design Intern @ IDEO
Jan 1998 – Jan 1998 | Palo Alto, CA
Implemented mechatronic products while a member of the Smart Products studio. These included projects such as a wireless "emotion" communicator and an Internet-based, text-pager network.

### Researcher @ Kawasaki Robotics Center in Tokyo
Jan 1996 – Jan 1996
Created a virtual cockroach that had multiple layers of progressively higher-order instinct.  Based on an academic paper on Subsumption architecture


## Education
### Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Smart Devices)
Stanford University

### Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering, minor in Computer Science
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zohnny
- Portfolio: http://bit.ly/johnnychenportfolio

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Last updated: 2026-04-13