Helen Chen

Full Stack Developer at Letters to Strangers
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(386) 825-5501
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, US
Languages
  • Chinese Limited working proficiency

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Experience

    • United States
    • Mental Health Care
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Full Stack Developer
      • Dec 2018 - Present

      Letters to Strangers is a global youth-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit seeking to destigmatize mental illness and increase access to affordable, quality treatment for youth aged 13 to 24. - Developed Chapter component of the online platform to allow virtual letter exchanges between Chapter groups of Letters to Strangers (L2S) especially for mitigating social distancing during COVID-19- Developed trigger warning tags for letter submissions (important in the mental health context) - Automated/simplified letter exchange distribution algorithm - Created interface for easy publicity of Letters to Strangers Org related events- Affects 8k+ daily unique users and 20 L2S Chapter Show less

    • Chief Content Officer
      • Dec 2018 - Present

      - Designed with Canva to create relevant mental health care content and educational resources across 4k followers on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr- Increased social media engagement of a 50% increase in followers within the first 2 years - Worked closely with L2S team to publicize the mission of and work done by Letters to Strangers org and affiliated Chapters

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • Sep 2022 - Nov 2022

      Entered Meta as a bootcamper in September 2022 - Underwent 3 weeks of regular bootcamp before internal freeze was placed on team selection/bootcamp - Built extensive PowerSearch internal tool for an Ads-related team (backend and frontend): to be used by all PMs on the team for searching/conducting mock expeirments - Part of the November 2022 #meta #layoff Entered Meta as a bootcamper in September 2022 - Underwent 3 weeks of regular bootcamp before internal freeze was placed on team selection/bootcamp - Built extensive PowerSearch internal tool for an Ads-related team (backend and frontend): to be used by all PMs on the team for searching/conducting mock expeirments - Part of the November 2022 #meta #layoff

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Teaching Assistant
      • Sep 2021 - May 2022

      Assisted undergraduates with understanding course content and programming assignments for Distributed Systems course - Course Size: 50 students - Utilized knowledge of core distributed systems principles such as concurrency and consensus algorithms (Paxos, Raft) - Guided students through debugging 5 total assignments over the semester, leveraging knowledge on concurrency and nondeterminism Assisted undergraduates with understanding course content and programming assignments for Distributed Systems course - Course Size: 50 students - Utilized knowledge of core distributed systems principles such as concurrency and consensus algorithms (Paxos, Raft) - Guided students through debugging 5 total assignments over the semester, leveraging knowledge on concurrency and nondeterminism

    • E-Learning Providers
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Full Stack Developer
      • Jun 2021 - May 2022

      - Integrated applicant waitlist option with existing matching algorithm - Implemented changes in matching algorithm to include multiple rounds and new preference options - Scale platform to accurately propagate data from multiple program cycles (across 300+ Teaching Fellows and 250+ Students) - Integrated applicant waitlist option with existing matching algorithm - Implemented changes in matching algorithm to include multiple rounds and new preference options - Scale platform to accurately propagate data from multiple program cycles (across 300+ Teaching Fellows and 250+ Students)

    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Engineer Intern
      • May 2021 - Aug 2021

      - Built configuration system & internal tool to support the acquisition of People Data - Enforced user privacy settings through use of config files (mitigating privacy SEV) - Established proper management of contact point acquisition sources including real-time hit rates data - Affects all engineering teams that deal with people data acquisition and prevents future data acquisition privacy SEVs - Built configuration system & internal tool to support the acquisition of People Data - Enforced user privacy settings through use of config files (mitigating privacy SEV) - Established proper management of contact point acquisition sources including real-time hit rates data - Affects all engineering teams that deal with people data acquisition and prevents future data acquisition privacy SEVs

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Student Technology Consultant
      • Aug 2019 - May 2020

      - Provide technical support (IT) and assistance to all students on campus- Helped over 100 students mitigate software issues

    • Programming Intern
      • Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

      Developed iOS trip planning app via Swift and Yelp’s Fusion API called What to Do?A user-friendly interface for helping users plan out potential destinations for various trips, giving options to add, remove, and search for new places to explore.

Education

  • Princeton University
    Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science
    2018 - 2022
  • The Bronx High School of Science
    2014 - 2018

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