# Justin Chen

> Senior Software Engineer @ Retool

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

## Work Experience
### Senior AI Engineer @ Retool
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Self Serve, AI Assist (copilot for Retool), Agents, Generative app building, RAG

### Founder, Instructor @ Your Missing Semester
Jan 2022 – Present
Founder of a volunteer organization educating and mentoring students and underrepresented demographics in computer science and software engineering.

### Senior Software Engineer, Self Serve Organizations @ Airtable
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer, Pricing & Monetization, Growth @ Airtable
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer, Intelligence @ Blend
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Led development of Vision, an OCR platform aimed at improving document data collection and verification
• Reduced loan time-to-funding by building experiences powered by data collected within our application to automatically flag information that warrants explanations or additional documentation 
• Built Pythia, a secure machine learning sandbox and database housing sensitive PII
• Architected Predictor, a service to utilize ML models and other data-driven techniques to predict and suggest follow-up information requests earlier in the loan cycle, shaving days and weeks off of the overall process
• Lead a focused tiger team to improve the discoverability and usability of the Follow-ups experience, increasing value for our Lender users
• Develop and maintain Documentor, an in-house library serving as a component library and WYSIWYG tool for streamlined PDF/document creation

### Software Engineering Mentor (Hacker in Residence) @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Monica, CA
• Serve as a technical mentor in teaching full-stack JavaScript and computer science concepts.
• Deliver various lectures ranging from algorithmic problem solving to system design and object-oriented programming.
• Conduct technical and behavioral interviews of prospective future students.

### Laser Science, Optics, and Targeting @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Livermore, CA
Study of Defect Evolution in ICF Hydrogen Fuel Layers
•	Wrote and ran MatLab code to score grooves on a database of completed layers at specified times
•	Recommend times at which abort decisions would correctly predict undesirable layer outcomes

### Research Assistant @ University of California, Irvine
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | University of California, Irvine
Ceramic and Hybrid Micro-Architectured Materials for High Temperature Applications
•	Printed and prepared 3-D-printed architectured ceramic and polymer hybrid test samples
•	Characterized mechanical properties using Instron testing machines


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

### The Chinese University of Hong Kong

### Computer Software Engineering
Hack Reactor

### University High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/justinpchen94

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Last updated: 2026-03-22