# Sen Lu Tom Chen

> Staff Software Engineer at Sight Machine

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

Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building large-scale, data-intensive web applications. Specializes in frontend architecture, data platforms, and user-facing analytics. Currently leading the integration of LLM and agentic workflows to advance Sight Machine’s AI platform for global manufacturing enterprises.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Sight Machine
Jan 2021 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Engineering lead for our manufacturing platform, focusing on Frontend and API work.

- App Builder: An AI-powered application framework that combines JSON-driven UI configuration, Python Notebooks, and client-specific databases to enable data scientists, consultants, and customers to build highly customizable, data-centric applications. Key capabilities include full-app AI generation, prompt-driven “vibe coding” updates, revision history, app import/export, and dashboard publishing.

- Internationalization (i18n) system for both React (frontend) and Flask (backend) codebases

- Scheduling & Reporting: Developed a scheduling system for large queries with cached dashboard retrieval, and extended it with PDF email scheduling to deliver dashboards reports to users on configurable intervals.

- Release Engineering: Led release-process improvements through automation of release documentation, test coverage, and CI pipelines, increasing release cadence from months to biweekly.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Sight Machine
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Graphical ETL Platform: Led frontend development of a drag-and-drop ETL builder for large-scale factory systems, enabling data engineers and third-party contractors to rapidly design, version, and maintain data pipelines. Delivered features such as revision history, auto-reflow, and GitHub integration, significantly reducing data modeling time and supporting customer expansion.

- UI Test Automation: Built a JavaScript-based UI testing framework using Chrome Puppeteer, including a custom CLI test runner that enabled QA engineers to author end-to-end and integration tests. Drove adoption to hundreds of automated tests, making it a critical safeguard against regressions in every release.

### Software Engineer @ Sight Machine
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
- Analytics Platform Features: Built and evolved core product capabilities including dashboards, data visualizations, data tables, a custom analytics builder, feature toggles, alerting, and an extensible share-link system that persisted application state via dynamic URLs for cross-app sharing.

- Time Zone Architecture: Designed and rebuilt a time zone–aware date picker to eliminate systemic time zone issues and establish a standardized, application-wide approach for querying, formatting, and displaying date/time.

### Software Developer @ Forio
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Architect and implement educational and business web applications on React/Redux or Backbone.js for clients such as Wharton, Liberty Mutual, and Johnson & Johnson.
- Lead front-end development on three projects and contribute to eight projects total.
- Solve interesting problems such as voice chat using WebRTC, multiplayer game matching algorithm, machine generated graph minimizing edge overlap and contribute to internal d3 chart library, Contour.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Civis Analytics
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Chicago
- Designed, implemented and tested a commenting system that allows users to comment and reply on any page with the addition of one line of code.
- Recreated a database status page using AngularJS to allow user to view queries and table statuses automatically without the need of refreshing the whole page.

### Consulting Intern @ SAP
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Taiwan
- Researched and analyzed technology trends and products in fields such as cloud and mobility from reading white papers 
- Convinced senior management to focus on selling and implementing SAP Hana (Big Data) solutions to Taiwan’s clients
- Recorded meeting minutes between consultants and clients and built queries from data cubes to produce financial reports using SAP Query Designer and Report Designer

### Intern @ Deloitte
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Taipei, Taiwan
- Programmed and developed cloud-based software designed to simplify accounting work by automatically checking routine auditing procedures.
- Assessed and consulted clients’ IT system by benchmarking software and hardware against set criteria to ensure information security and improve efficiency.
- Translated academic reports on consulting practices from English to Chinese to improve the new employee learning program.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science; Economics;
Northwestern University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Westtown School
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/senluchen
- Website: http://www.senlutomchen.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22