Michael Ran Chen

Engineering @ Anthropic

South San Francisco, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Member of Technical Staff (Manager) at Anthropic
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Developer Productivity

  • Quora (9 yrs 6 mos)
    • Head of Platform
      Apr 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Led the Platform Engineering organization at Quora. Our teams focus on enhancing developer productivity across the company. We build tools, systems and abstractions to support developers working on product, machine learning, and data analytics.

    • Engineering Manager
      Feb 2019 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Engineering manager for the ML Platform team at Quora. Our team builds the systems and abstractions that power machine learning applications across the company.

    • Staff Software Engineer
      Jul 2015 - Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Software engineer on the Machine Learning Platform team. Developed critical pieces of ML infrastructure including recommendation systems, feature storage, candidate retrieval, model training and serving.

  • Software Engineering Intern at Google
    Jun 2014 - Aug 2014 · 3 mos

  • System Administrator Intern at Jane Street
    May 2013 - Aug 2013 · 4 mos