Max Chen is a Product Leader | Entrepreneur | Alexa Smart Home Founding Member at Snap Inc.. He possess expertise in c, java, c++, embedded systems, html and 16 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Max’s ability to empathize with customers combined with his technical knowledge make him one of the most effective product managers I have worked with. He is able to translate customer feedback into actionable product development goals in a manner that is rapid but does not sacrifice effectiveness in terms of meeting a customer’s need. Additionally, he does a great job taking ownership over the areas of work he is responsible for while simultaneously trusting and empowering his co-workers to have ownership over their areas of responsibility. Overall, Max was a personable, authentic, and effective co-worker who I would enjoy working with again.", "Max was one of the first engineers I hired into my team in Alexa Engine. Max had impressed me, my director and several other leaders with very compelling prototype that he built for an internal hackathon. He is a well rounded engineer with a very unique ability to invent new things and confidence (and hustle) to take the ideas to the next level. At such as early stage in his career, I saw Max inspire both his team mates and senior leaders with his ideas. He is also a strong engineer passionate about improving code quality and who proactively built things to improve developer productivity across the Alexa Platform team. Max does well in environments that encourage taking big bets and empower engineers - am sure he will lead his own startup one day!", and "Max is a diligent and motivated team member. He worked as a co-op term student in my team. His assignment was to implement some new platform performance evaluation tools, as well as port some existing opensource tools written in C and Java, then subsequently add those tools into our automated performance testing framework written in Python and shell. He has accomplished those tasks in time and with the expected level of quality. Max is initiative, dependable, hardworking, responsible and creative. He has gained plenty of new BlackBerry 10 and Android platform expertise during his co-op term. And it was my pleasure working with him, seeing how quickly he learns and delivers on his commitments. He would definitely be a great asset to any company he decides to work for."