# Mengdi Chen

> Frontend / Fullstack / AI Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mengdi

I don't check InMail often, sorry!
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Started my career as a Front End engineer 10+ years ago. How time flies!
Experienced in building & maintaining complex products, improving DevX for team & growing engineering teams.
Former React.js core team member, fueled by sheer love for OSS.
Diving into the fun new world of building AI powered products!

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Normal Computing
Jan 2023 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Building AI powered EDA

### Senior Front End Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Greater New York City Area
- Lead of React Developer Tooling
- Lead the UI work of resource accounting for capacity management and service efficiency 
- Co-maintainer of Recoil, a React state management library

### Senior Software Engineer @ FreeWheel
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | New York City
- As a core member of the UI infrastructure team, design and continuously improve the architecture and toolchain of Front-End development.
- Build and maintain a React.js based UI component library.
- Lead a team of 6 engineers to rewrite the Advertising Management module of web UI, from legacy Ruby-on-Rails+jQuery architecture to React.js based single page application with service-oriented backend architecture, with 0 bugs reported on production.
- Lead the company-wide work of introducing GraphQL-based API gateway, which solves the efficiency problem of UI-server communication caused by the adoption of service-oriented architecture.

### Intern @ ActionIQ
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | New York City
Web development / Data Visualization / DevX Infrastructure
React.js / ECMAScript / Scala

### Front-end engineer @ Douban
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Beijing City, China
Develop full-featured single page application for ebook reading, annotating & sharing
Implement new payment API  and integration with third parties
Collaborate with engineers from different departments to build mobile UI library from scratch
Lead the work of introducing mobile web & hybrid app for Douban Read project

### Intern @ Wozai Info Tech Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Worked on the refactor of Guohead Mobile Advertisement dashboard using PHP and JavaScript.


## Education
### Master's Degree in Information Science
Cornell University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Arts
Communication University of China
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mengdi
- Website: http://huisecheng.com/blog

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Last updated: 2026-03-22