# Michelle Chen

> SDE @ Amazon Music

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michellechen1

Hi, I’m a software engineer and UC Berkeley alumnus with degrees in Computer Science and Cognitive Science who is passionate about learning, creating, innovating and teaching!

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Music
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Music
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Full stack engineer on Amazon Music’s Free and Prime Tier Visual Engagement team.

### Computer Science Instructor @ Juni Learning
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Held 1-1 tutoring sessions with middle school students covering material from Python Turtle and game mechanics to fundamental computer science skills like control structures, data structures and loops.

### CS 61A Head uGSI @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Held weekly 40-person discussion sections, lab sections, and office hours
• As head of logistics, coordinated staff hours, exam proctoring and grading, and addressed student concerns for a 1500-2000+ student course with a 75+ member staff.

### CS 61A uGSI @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States

### Technical Product Lead @ KOS Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

### Software Development Intern @ Amazon Music
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
SDE Intern on the Amazon Music FM/PM, Voice Engagement team:
• Used AWS DynamoDB and AWS AppConfig to implement a system for configuring customer skip limits at both regional and individual levels. This config is still in place and used internally.
• Designed and implemented an A/B experiment to test the effects of a week-long trial of an unlimited feature on customer engagement.

### Software Development Intern @ PayPal
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States
Worked with database management and cloud sync as part of PayPal’s content management system (CMS) team

### CS 61A Associate Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Held weekly mentoring sections for CS 61A students covering content minilectures, studying and exam techniques, and practice problems

### CS 61B Lab Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Answered conceptual course/lab-related questions and assisted with minor debugging during weekly lab sections

### Student Research Intern @ San José State University Research Foundation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California
• Set up overnight studies examining various sleep inertia countermeasures at the NASA Ames’ Fatigue Countermeasures Lab
• Performed statistical analysis on lab data using R
• Created and presented a formal research poster on the effects of sleep restriction on subjective sleepiness and mood and submitted a research abstract

### Student Research Assistant, Coauthor @ San José State University Research Foundation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Reviewed research on motivating operations-based interventions for people with developmental disabilities
• Compiled data into a spreadsheet and conducted basic data analysis
• Contributed to and submitted a formal research paper to a peer-reviewed journal


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science, Cognitive Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Lynbrook High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mchen9129

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Last updated: 2026-03-29