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Liang Chen is listed as Technology Executive at Axon, based in Redmond, Washington, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Liang Chen.
Liang Chen previously worked as VP/GM of Platforms at Axon and Head of Infrastructure and Core Platforms / Senior Director of Engineering at Convoy Inc. Liang Chen holds Bs, Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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About Liang Chen
* Passionate about tackling complex, real-world challenges, I specialize in driving technological and organizational growth in close collaboration with product and business leaders, with a focus on empowering teams and scaling businesses. My expertise lies in developing and operating end-to-end solutions and tech platforms across engineering, data and ML for large-scale SaaS & mobile products spanning various sectors, including B2B (Convoy), prosumer (AWS Honeycode), and consumer markets (Amazon Kindle, Windows Mobile).* With over 20 years of experience, I am adept at steering organizational strategies and cultivating multi-disciplinary engineering teams at various stages of growth. My background spans both nimble startup environments (Convoy) and major corporations (Amazon, Microsoft), allowing me to navigate and lead effectively in diverse settings.* My international experience in Asia, Europe, and North America has honed my ability to lead and collaborate with globally distributed teams, embracing and leveraging diverse cultural and professional backgrounds to achieve business objectives.
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Head Of Infrastructure And Core Platforms / Senior Director Of Engineering
Convoy was a 100% cloud native system, with data insights and Machine Learning as its core driving force of everything for the digital freight network. Reporting to the CPTO, I was the product and engineering owner of the infrastructure and core platforms across engineering, Data and ML, as well as cloud Infra, dev experiences and security. - Drove company-wide tech platform strategy and led multi-year vision/roadmap definition and execution, as well as ongoing operation of cloud infra and core platforms across backend / frontend services, data and ML, that empowers the product, engineering & data science team of over 400.- Scaled the organization up and down based on business needs (grew the Infra org by 50% and set it up for multiple x growth in 6 months) while continually delivering more and faster and raising the bar on operational efficiency.- Owned tech spend of the whole company. Drove 38% cost reduction in cloud (AWS) spend and 40% reduction in data warehouse (Snowflake) spend while enabling true auto scaling (cheaper, better and faster at the same time) and FinOps with high visibility and predictability.
Sep 2021 - Oct 2023
Head Of Engineering, Aws No Code Platform
- Drove V1 launch and operation of Amazon Honeycode, AWS’s experimental no-code SaaS solution to enable less technical users to build mobile and web applications without needing programming.- Led and grew a full stack engineering team of 140+ across backend, web and mobile spreading multiple sites in US and Canada.
Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
Head Of Engineering, Kindle Cross Platform
• Owned delivering and operating Kindle Reader apps across Kindle E-reader, Fire tablet, Android, iOS, and Web, serving millions of customers and a multi billion dollar business.• Managing a multi discipline team of 100+ Dev, QAE, SE and TPMs across multiple geolocations (US, India, China)• Defining and executing cross OS tech strategy to develop Kindle Reader as a platform that empowers 500+ engineers across the orgs to innovate on behalf of our global customers at fast pace and massive scale.See some cool examples of what we do to help people around the world read more and get more out of reading, and make the world a better place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl8EqDPI1ho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fUKOadnt6g
Dec 2012 - Mar 2019
Principal Development Lead, Mobile Browser
· Managed Browser dev team of Windows Phone divsion, played key role in driving the IE7, IE9 and IE10 project .· Took over and turned around a slipping team in critical stage of the release and successfully shipped IE7 on time for Windows Phone 7.· Led the effort of shipping IE9 with new architecture design for HTML5 and hardware acceleration for Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), made significant business impact with which was thought by many impossible to accomplish in the timeframe.
Oct 2009 - Dec 2012
Development Manager, Mobile Messaging
· Managed team of 20+ developers at Redmond and 10+ developers (dot line reports) in Beijing MTC for Messaging team in Wndows Phone division.· Delivered Email and Messaging experiences (SMS, MMS and Instant Messaging) for Windows Mobile 5, 6 and Windows Phone 7.
May 2005 - Oct 2009
Senior Sde, Tech Lead, Activesync
Software Development Engineer and technical lead in Sync team for Windows Mobile, responsible of developing networking, security, and data synchronization solutions between mobile phone and desktop PC/Exchange server.
Mar 2001 - May 2005
Engineering Manager And Site Leader
Ls Telcom Ag
· Set up and grow the development branch in Shanghai China from zero to 10+ developers.· Led a development team of 12+ developers based across Germany and China.· Delivered multiple versions of mission critical applications for digital map processing and satellite/radio networking planning for government administrations and mobile network operators all around the world.
Jul 1996 - Jan 2001
Software Engineer
Nan Yang Info And Control Ltd.
Database application development for retail POS and hotel information management systems.
Jul 1995 - Jun 1996
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Liang Chen education
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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What company does Liang Chen work for?
Liang Chen works for Axon.
What is Liang Chen's role at Axon?
Liang Chen is listed as Technology Executive at Axon.
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Liang Chen is based in Redmond, Washington, United States while working with Axon.
What companies has Liang Chen worked for?
Liang Chen has worked for Axon, Convoy Inc, Amazon Web Services (Aws), Amazon, and Microsoft.
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Liang Chen holds Bs, Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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