# Xinyi Chen > SWE @ Temporal | Ex-Uber Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/xinyichen1 A self-driven software engineer with a track record of building highly distributed online systems, leading complex backend projects, and driving cross-organization initiatives ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Temporal Technologies Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Temporal Technologies Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Technical Lead @ Stealth Startup Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | China • Reaiverse is an achievement system that rewards every kind of real-life passion with an NFT. One can join as a player to earn NFTs or an NPC to issue NFTs to players • Designed and built the first version of our user achievement ecosystem from scratch using Golang, MongoDB/MySQL, AWS SQS & Lambda • Grew the tech from a single host service to an auto-scaling system on AWS using ELB (load balancing), ECS (auto-scaling), CodePipeline (CI/CD), and CloudWatch (logs, metrics & alerts) • Grew the eng team from 0 to 6 and coached junior engineers on programming language, backend framework, database, and instrumentation via documentation and knowledge share sessions ### Senior Software Engineer @ Uber Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area • Being the home of the biggest Personal Identifiable Information (PII) at Uber (470TB of data), Driver docs team ensures reliable and secure user doc storage and processing. We build the right abstraction for multiple business verticals (Onboarding, Compliance, Driver/Vehicle Identity) to access Uber-verified user data • Led 4 teams through a cross-functional 1-year project to fix the leaky funnel-switch between ride-share and food delivery. Driver activation went up by 48.9% and supply hours by 185% after roll-out • Led a 6-month data remodeling project and produced a better abstraction for driver onboarding status. Coordinated with 10+ product teams to move to that V2 API o Example impact: a product team managed to reduce the incorrect rejection of drivers by 8% after building on our V2 API • Rearchitected team’s core service’s MySQL access pattern and increased read throughput by 7x (2.5k -> 18k rps), reduced P50 latency by 20x (500 -> 25 ms) • Created and enforced unit & integration test standards for team’s core services • Provided technical consultation to the senior leadership when defining the organization’s 3-year-plan ### Software Engineer II @ Uber Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Led a team of 6 on Python-to-Go rewrite of team’s core service and increased host efficiency by 6x (60 -> 10 hosts) • Rebuilt an internal data backfill tool and increased write throughput by 30x (1 -> 30 rps), which cut operation agents’ manual work by ~4.5 hrs per week per person • Standardized team’s inbound ticket handling procedure by creating a bot that managed ticket assignment, handoff and overdue reminder ### Software Engineer I @ Uber Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Built a Node.js web app used by 1k+ operation agents to upload driver documents and manage driver onboarding status • Contributed to monolith-to-microservice API & database migration ### CS 2110 Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Atlanta, GA • Conduct weekly labs on basic computer hardware, assembly language, and C programming • Provide academic assistance through office hours, online forum, and emails ### Software Engineering Intern @ Ericsson Mediaroom Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA • Contributed to Mint, a Windows app for set-top box testing used by twenty testers • Automated remote control tests by implementing playback feature • Responded to feature requests, bug reports and performance issues using Agile methodologies ### Software Developer Intern @ IMC Financial Markets Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Chicago, IL • Contributed to 24/7 simulated trading environment project through developing a time updater module • Increased software sign-off rate by 50% through automated integration using TeamCity • Developed mock auto-trader for three oil-related futures with two developer and two trader interns • Wrote unit tests with Mockito for market information module ### Software Engineering Intern @ Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 • Worked with a team of six on Agent-Based Traffic Simulation for Virtual Environments using Unity3D • Integrated a time-estimation algorithm into crossroad decision-making strategy • Fixed three bugs that caused physically unrealistic behavior of simulated vehicles • Presented work outcomes in DAAD RISE scholar meeting ### Resident Adviser @ Dickinson College Campus Life Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Carlisle, PA • Collaborate with RA staff team in organizing educational and social events • Promote conflict resolution among residents by facilitating communication ### Teaching Assistant @ Dickinson College Physics Department Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Carlisle, PA • Guided a group of 18 students through scientific paper writing • Directed students in experiment setup and laboratory maintenance ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science Dickinson College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xinyichenswe --- Source: https://flows.cv/xinyichen1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/xinyichen1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01