Vincent Chen

Engineering Leader

San Mateo, California, United States

About

I am a seasoned engineering leader with strategic thinking and business mindset. I successfully grew a few engineering teams from ground up for supporting growth channels in performance marketing and user-facing products, as well as data platforms for supporting operations and analytics. I lead by example and I am an effective career coach, creating a healthy working environment for engineers and managers in my org to grow, also for cross functional partners to perform at their fullest. Meanwhile, I strongly maintain my roots in tech, especially in the areas of distributed systems, data processing, and platformization.

Experience

  • Senior Director, Engineering at GEICO
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    Building an AI Underwriting platform for GEICO, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary.

  • Head of Engineering, Trading Platform at Robinhood
    Jun 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    The mission of Trading Platform is to enable Robinhood users to reliably trade any asset, any time, any way and from anywhere! As one of the most critical platform teams in the company, we not only act as an active contributor to all Brokerage major products, we also drive initiatives to empower product teams with enhanced and new trading capabilities and tools, through the following pillars: * Order Routing * Fractional Trading & Order Batching * OEMS (Order and Execution Management System) * Reg Reporting * Trading Infrastructure

  • Airbnb (4 yrs 1 mo)
    • Head of Engineering, Media & Distribution
      2019 - 2021 · 2 yrs

      Led engineering teams for Media & Distribution org under Growth and Traffic. - Metasearch partnerships via public inventory API, launched Trivago partnership. - Launched Airbnb Associates program. - Display/Social Ads: Drive growth through display ads such as FB & GDN, with personalized content. - Referral Platform: Incentivized new user growth with strong fraud control. - Bootstrapped Listing Intelligence Platform

    • Engineering Manager, Growth Discovery
      2017 - 2019 · 2 yrs

      Airbnb guest growth: - Engagement: Send notifications to the right audience at the right time with personalized content. - Referral & Virality: Growth leveraging users' social networks, nurturing user community. - SEO: Landing page optimization, AMP, sitemap, traffic tracking - Affiliates: API service & metasearch - Grew the org from 3 to 20+ engineers.

  • Walmart Labs (4 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Manager, Software Engineering
      2015 - 2017 · 2 yrs

      Led Search Engine Marketing (SEM) platform team, Product Data Platform team.

    • Staff Software Engineer
      2013 - 2015 · 2 yrs

      Search Engine Marketing web services and data pipelines development. Systems architecture and infrastructure support. Technical leadership.

  • Senior Software Engineer at HTC
    2011 - 2013 · 2 yrs

    Connected Services Team * Built e-commerce platform supporting HTC apps and websites, for all users to consume content. * Built web services for processing massive HTC user data.