Software Engineer
Riley Chen.
Full-stack software engineer with 6+ years building and scaling web products. I care about fast, reliable systems and clean, human interfaces. Comfortable owning a feature from database to pixels, and happiest shipping things people actually use.
Work Experience
Latchkey (Series B fintech)
Led the rebuild of the payments dashboard in React and TypeScript, cutting median load time from 4.1s to 0.9s. Designed a webhook delivery pipeline (Node, Postgres, SQS) handling 12M events/day with at-least-once guarantees. Mentored 4 engineers and set the team's code-review and testing conventions.
Northbeam
Built the customer-facing analytics API (GraphQL, Postgres) serving 800+ B2B accounts. Shipped the onboarding flow that lifted activation from 38% to 61% over two quarters.
Tidewell Labs
Maintained internal tooling and automated a nightly reporting job, saving ~6 hours/week of manual work.
Projects
Tempo
An open-source CLI for tracking focus time, 2.3k GitHub stars.
MapNotes
A small React app for pinning travel notes to a map; built to learn PostGIS.