# ⛵ Leighton Chen

> Full Stack Engineer (Product/Growth)

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

I am a software engineer excited to bring everyday ideas to life through code, with experience in developing full stack scalable web applications. ⠀

## Work Experience
### Full Stack Engineer @ Digit
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
‣ [Marketing/Engineering One-Man Team] Singlehandedly coordinated and managed all of Digit’s marketing tech stack, leading to across the board improvements across marketing, data, and engineering. Notable achievements include the integration of Instapage (a marketing landing page platform which enabled the marketing team to create, test, and launch their own landing pages) and the migration from AppsFlyer to Singular (mobile attribution platforms)
‣ [User Tracking Standardization/Upgrades] Designed and implemented a fundamental overhaul for how tracking events were done for the Digit mobile app, leading to a standardized system which allowed the Digit data team to more easily track user flows
‣ [Security Refresh] Led and managed a team of engineers to improve security for the mobile app by introducing a three tiered authentication flow for login/session management (biometrics ⇢ passcode ⇢ password)
‣ [Leadership/Cross Functional Collaboration] With the three projects above, I was the sole owner and drove the project(s) from start to finish, which included weekly meetings with relevant stakeholders and cross functional teams, writing, revising, and presenting technical specs, and breaking down work into tickets for the team’s engineers
‣ [Onboarding Flow] Collaborated with a team of engineers to completely revamp the onboarding flow of the Digit mobile app. This included updating and refreshing the existing Digit app, as well as creating a fully new flow for Digit’s second product offering, Digit Direct
‣ [Mobile App Work (iOS/Android)] During my time at Digit, I created multiple pages/flows for both the Digit website and the mobile app according to design/tracking specs from the design and data team respectively. My work encapsulated the entirety of the mobile app, including the onboarding flow, user profile, settings, bank connection, savings goals, etc
‣ [Misc] Testing coverage upgrades, A/B experimentation, on-call, hiring efforts

### Research Assistant / Intern @ Dohmen Life Science Services
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | United States
‣ Conducted introductory AI research in IBM Watson to cut down pharmacist response times and add an additional layer of validation for medical diagnoses
‣ Managed Microsoft Access database for pharmacists, including editing, adding, and removing HIPAA-sensitive information

### Software Development Intern @ Verity, A HealthStream Company
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area
‣ Designed, developed, and debugged application plugins to retrieve healthcare provider data from state medical board websites into the Echo database
‣ Performed plugin software upgrades to support image validation and verification
‣ Redesigned existing frontend pages in the web application to enhance page navigation and usability


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
UC San Diego

### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program
Hack Reactor


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29