⌨︎Charles Chen Email & Phone Number

West Windsor Township, Nj, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

VC-backed e-commerce startup founded by ex-Amazon, ex-Walmart, ex-Anycart team with an $8m seed round. Technical design and implementation of multiple products from omni-channel checkout landing pages to next generation shopping experiences to AI-generated SEO content pages to AI-powered real-time search overviews (demo: https://youtu.be/tWE8yGKOEDw). Full stack development; bias towards backend. Responsible for full-stack design and development of various product lines (external and internal facing), improving devops, and mentoring junior engineers.(React, Vue, AWS, DynamoDB, Postgres, TypeScript, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET, Next.js, Astro.js)

Princeton Junction, New Jersey, Us

Side-project to full-blown SaaS. Started over a weekend to plan my own trips; shared with the world to help travelers collaboratively plan trips and publish stories of their adventures! Web app, PWA, and Chrome extension for well-organized travelers.https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/turasapp/lpfijfdbgohlblnadiokliolkkeeblpohttps://www.reddit.com/r/TravelHacks/comments/105s90u/i_built_an_app_to_help_plan_trips_collaboratively/(TypeScript, Vue.js, Firebase, Firestore, Google Cloud Functions)

Mountain View, Ca, Us

VC-backed YCombinator alum building AI-powered productivity tools for individuals and teams. Full stack (backend bias) development of the Motion calendaring and scheduling system as well as E2E test automation.(React, Google Cloud, Google Cloud Functions, Firebase, Firestore, Node.js, TypeScript)

Jersey City, Nj, Us

VC-backed startup building AR-powered tools supporting rigorously controlled processes in pharma manufacturing (pivoted to focus on regulatory process tracking). Responsible for designing engineering process for the design, development, and delivery of a validated software system as required to meet GxP guidelines.

NLP powered platform for organizing, sharing, and consuming operational knowledge.Presented architecture at Microsoft's Azure Serverless conf: (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/azure-serverless-conf/surfacing-fda-covid-data-using-serverless-functions-and-cosmosdb-with-charles-chen)(Vue, TypeScript, Azure Functions, Azure CosmosDB)

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Managed the innovoPOINT product pipeline from requirements scoping with stakeholders to development to multi-million dollar go-lives and ongoing support.• Technical architect for commercial product that supported all global clinical trials for the world’s largest pharmaceutical customers operating business-critical clinical trials such as Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide trials (Wegovy).• Scaled the system to support global rollout and reduced latency of world-wide electronic delivery for critical safety letters (SUSARs) by 10x while improving visibility and monitoring of document acceptance rates across all sites.• Technical interface for customers such as Novo Nordisk and Boehringer-Ingelheim for global rollouts to over 300,000 users at 60,000 trial sites around the world.• Designed and implemented the core distributed, high-throughput batch event processing architecture using ZeroMQ to enable an event-driven architecture managing millions of nodes in a Neo4j graph database.• Collaborated with customer IT leaders to scope and design enterprise systems integrations to eTMF (Veeva Vault, FirstDoc), CTMS (Impact), and SSO (Exostar, Ping Identity, Office 365).• Built off-shore, near-shore, and on-shore engineering teams from the ground up.• Implemented code quality standards, defined SDLC processes, evaluated emerging technologies, planned engineering roadmap, expedited the QA process via automation and streamlined documentation, and refined the DevOps pipeline.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Collaborated with customer Roche Diagnostics to define requirements and lead engineering for new Clinical Trial Management Office product. Responsible for $1M engineering budget overseeing nearshore and offshore engineering, QA, and SME resources.Worked with sales team to prepare RFI responses including participating in the TransCelerate Shared Investigator Portal (SIP) effort.

Cranford, Nj, Us

Managed consulting team to deliver full-stack solutions for clients in life sciences and financial verticals. Clients included Abbott Labs, Merck, Citibank, Bank of America, GSK, sanofi-aventis, and Cephalon.Supported sales team as a pre-sales engineer to review and respond to RFPs by mapping customer business requirements to solution architectures and technical deliverables. Built proof-of-concept prototypes and authored technical requirements.

↑FCG acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)↑ As a senior consultant, lead team of staff and associate consultants on a client site providing senior technical leadership, guidance, and direction for development of a custom publishing tool with heavy OpenXML specialization.

↑Zorch Software acquired by First Consulting Group (FCG)↑ Continued working as a lead developer for Office and desktop components of the FirstPoint product after Zorch Software was acquired by First Consulting Group.

↑Zorch Software↑ Lead software engineer of the FirstPoint product for management of documents for regulated workflows. Designed and implemented the Office add-in component, SharePoint integration, and various core framework runtime components for FirstPoint. Also responsible for technical architecture and development of SharePoint 2007 to Project Server 2003 integration components prior to starting FirstPoint.

London, Gb

Performed solution design and development for various Fortune 500 companies including Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, Angelo Gordon, and Telcordia. Developed automation framework with deep interactions with Win32 API (P/Invoke) calls to automate Project Server cascading updates across hundreds of enterprise project plans for client Pfizer.(As part of International Network Services which was acquired by British Telecom)

New York, Ny, Us

Developed automated processes and tools for intranet HR applications and ETL packages.

New York, Ny, Us

Part of front-end team re-building Dow Jones Factiva with a focus on web and accessibility standards.

Developed various web applications for management of media campaigns utilizing both ASP and ASP.NET. Aided in optimizing SQL performance of existing database schemas and queries.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Planned and executed database modernization, optimization, and upsizing. Rearchitected, consolidated, and modernized intranet HR applications. Evaluated portal technologies including Plumtree and built in-house solution.