Peng-Yu Chen

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About Me

Hi, I'm Peng-Yu Chen, originally from the beautiful island of Penghu in Taiwan.

Currently working as a Software Engineer in NYC, I enjoy creating real-life applications that bring tangible benefits to people.

Fascinated by remarkable software practices and engineering excellence, my belief in following good coding conventions remains unwavering.

Wendy's Chicken is my first meal in the US.

C is the first programming language I learned.

I know a little Japanese.

I watch animes.

My cat is named "Lola".

Coding, Traveling, Workout, Swimming, Walking, Foodie, Reading, Dry weather, Snow.

Work Experience

June 2022 - Present

New York, NY

Design, build, and run a data serving platform that empowers all of Alphabet's speech and audio ML research

March 2022 - June 2022

New York, NY

Built messaging infrastructure for a single and consistent logic in C++ to bridge iOS and Android with backend
Sped up the messaging experience in fetching feed and syncing feed by parallelization for 20% through A/B study
Implemented GoogleTest to cover 99% of the business logic in both unit testing and integration testing

May 2021 - August 2021

New York, NY

Established GraphQL APIs by Hack and created Python scripts that call the APIs to onboard Jest tests, allowing iOS and Android developers to have a uniform script to onboard newly written Jest tests
Recommended trial numbers to lower the standard deviation of metric values by over 25% for three Jest tests
Tinkered new formula for reasonable trial numbers with senior engineers and reported the process in daily standup