# Victor Chen > Software Engineer at Zip Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/victorchen2 Hi, I'm Victor, a Software Engineer working on Security at Zip. I've previously worked at Nuro, Quora, Google, Snap Inc., and SAP. My goal is to build stuff that helps people in bettering their lives in any way possible - primarily through building tools and improving security. For more information visit chenboy3.github.io! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Zip Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Security ### Security Engineer @ Nuro Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States Original member of security team of 3, helped to interview, establish team culture, and grow the team to 25 members. Implemented GCP OIDC authentication workflow for a critical internal application used by all Nuro internal vehicle operators. Performed internal physical security assessments on Nuro offices, and reported on weaknesses and recommended fixes. Established the initial Detection and Response team, assessed EDR, SOAR, and SIEM products, and integrated EDR and SIEM solutions at Nuro before handing off to newly formed Detection and Response team. Migrated 70+% of critical internal services to GCP Workload Identity. Removed 100% of GCP service account keys from the Nuro’s codebase. Developed a comprehensive secrets management solution using Google Secrets Manager and migrated 50+% of secrets in the codebase. Wrote policies/documentation for SOC-2 Gap Analysis, achieving 88% compliance in prep for SOC-2 Type 1 Compliance. Wrote internal security libs for other teams/users at Nuro: Slackbots, Google Groups APIs, Google Secrets Manager wrappers, Bigquery Client wrappers, automated Google Calendar privacy setting configurations, gRPC + OAuth library, Delegated GCP credentials ### Software Engineer @ Quora Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA Security and Environments (SecEnv) Team. Recovered knowledge, rebuilt, and refactored the SSH infrastructure that allows employees to SSH into their dev environments. Improved documentation of security and SSH infrastructure, as well as the on-call process for SecEnv Team. Began research work and setup into AWS infra migration for security, cost, and speed improvements. Refactored and improved the creation and removal process of development environments for new and former employees. Wrote an SSH bastion for connecting to Kubernetes nodes in different regions. Performed security audits on code migrations, to verify that internal security guidelines were maintained ### CSE Tutor/TA @ University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of Engineering Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | UC San Diego Tutor/TA for CS 11, 12, 15L, 30, 110 classes at UCSD (Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures & Object-Oriented Design, Unix Lab, Computer Architecture & Systems Programming, Software Engineering). Assisted students in implementations of Object-Oriented Programming concepts (polymorphism, concurrency, inheritance, encapsulation, abstraction), various data structures (Trees, Hash Tables, Stacks, Linked Lists), using various software tools (Shell scripts, Git, Vim, gdb, Makefiles), computer architecture in C and SPARC Assembly, and software engineering principles and tools (design patterns). Analyzed and debugged students' code, and explained concepts in C, C++, Java, SPARC Assembly, ARM Assembly, and Unix. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Quora Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA SecEnv team within Infrastructure Team. Worked on upgrading the infrastructure to support the detection of CVE vulnerabilities in third-party libraries in Java, JavaScript, Python, C++, and apt Also wrote cron jobs to monitor insecure security groups of RDS databases. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Snapchat, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Venice, CA Software Engineering Intern on Application Security Team for Fall 2017, working in full stack web development. Designed a security linter that lints all internal repos and pull requests for cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Google Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area Interned on Google Slides Team, working in full-stack development. Added support for Text Wrapping property (determining if text is confined or overflows past the boundaries of a shape). Extracted the Text Wrapping property when importing/exporting to Slides from/to PPTX, and added support for client-side and server-side rendering ### Software Engineering Intern @ SAP Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA Worked on SAP's API team to develop internal tools for other employees and customers to use. Developed several programs to create, parse, verify, and diff-check XML setting files, using various XML APIs, including DOM/SAX Parsing, and DTD/Schema Verification to build these programs. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Vessel Science Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA Assisted in implementation of lab protocol simulation software, updating various features in the program on both the front-end and back-end of the code. Worked in a team with several other software engineers to accomplish necessary tasks, using JavaScript and AngularJS. ### Instructor @ SpringLight Education Institute Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, CA Developed accelerated math, Java, and AP Computer science courses to instruct middle and high school students around the Bay Area, with each course lasting around 40-50 hours in total. Gave lectures, created tests, and evaluated the students' code and work to ensure they fully understood the concepts, preparing them for the various middle/high school courses or respective competitions/tests (Mathcounts, AMC, Number Theory, Mental Math, AP CS test, AP Calculus BC test). ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science UC San Diego ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science UC San Diego ### Lynbrook High School ### Concurrent Enrollment Student in Mathematics West Valley College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/victorwchen --- Source: https://flows.cv/victorchen2 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/victorchen2/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11