# Richard Shen

> Staff Software Engineer @ Alchemy

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/richardshen

Richard is an experienced engineer who has lead/managed teams at startups and big tech companies in social media, advertising, alternative investments, and healthcare.

Previously, he was a staff engineer at GIPHY leading the ad products team. The newly-formed team was responsible for the in-house ad management platform and critical tracking services to support the rapidly growing ad business. He is passionate about performance, databases, and mentoring.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Alchemy
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Platform Infra team - Responsible for OLAP database (Druid) ingesting 30B+ events daily powering observability + external analytics dashboards, internal AI platform, and custom edge proxy handling 100k+ rps globally

### Sabbatical @ Recurse Center
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Database internals, transformers,  and distributed systems, oh my!

### Staff Software Engineer @ GIPHY
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer, Technical Lead @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ GIPHY
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Technical Lead of Ad Products Team. 

GIPHY Inc. is the first and largest GIF search engine where thousands of artists, brands, and pop culture moments make today’s expression, entertainment, and info a little more moving. GIPHY is integrated into thousands of platforms, including iMessage, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Microsoft Teams, Tinder, Slack and WhatsApp. We serve more than 10 billion pieces of content (GIFs, Stickers, etc.) per day, to a daily user reach of 1+ billion.

### Software Engineer @ Artivest - Powered by iCapital Network
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
(Acquired by iCapital) 
Bringing private investment management into the digital age.

### Software Engineer @ Truveris
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Technical lead of coupon activations team

### Advisor @ Codecademy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Codecademy is the easiest place to learn to code online, with 300+ hours of online content provided for free to millions of learners around the world.

### Crowd Collaborator @ Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Stanford Crowd Research Collective.


## Education
### Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics
New York University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biomedical Engineering, Minors in Mathematics and Psychology
Rutgers University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

### Piano Performance
The Juilliard School
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22