James Shaoyu Chen Chen
Actively seeking Software Engineer position | SWE @ Instagram | UW master‘s degree with 4 yrs. of working experience in software dev and mgmt at Meta, a Boston robotics startup, and Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce
- Role
- Software Engineer at Meta
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James Shaoyu Chen Chen
Actively seeking Software Engineer position 4 years of working experience in software dev and management at Meta, Boston AI startup, and Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, Kotlin, Swift, SQL, PHP Frameworks and APIs: React, Relay, GraphQL, Claude-based AI development tools Platforms: Web, Android, iOS, backend systems. Cloud and Data: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, SQL Skills: A/B Testing, Data Analysis, Web Full-Stack and Mobile Development
Experience
Software Engineer
Aug 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Full-stack Software Engineer on Instagram Direct Messaging — shipping product end-to-end across web (React / Relay / GraphQL), Android (Kotlin), iOS (Swift), and server (Hack + Python data services). Returned to the same team after a 2024 summer internship. Drove search performance win in IG Inbox Search by shipping a 3-character minimum on inbox message search on Android. Reduced Android inbox-search %Bad by −1.18pp across ~10M exposures, with 0 stat-sig negative regressions across 95 pre-experiment rows. Owned end-to-end delivery of Pinned Threads + Thread List Actions on IGD Desktop Web — covering triple-dot-menu UI, optimistic ordering, real-time cross-device sync, and professional-account support. Experiment showed −4.7%\"leave thread\" actions and +0.22% likes lift (~+1.48M likes); launched to all public users. Led the Android landing of Composer Unification: across Media, Camera, and Reels immersive viewers. Resolved all P0 QA issues. Shipped Omnipicker Add-Icon Removal to all Android Direct users (5.84M exposures). Group-sender DAU −0.16% NSS within ±0.49% MDE @ 80% power. Shipped the IG Messaging Web new send button to 100% of users, driving +6.15% Web→Server send reliability.Tech: React, Relay, GraphQL, Hack, Kotlin, Swift, Python, A/B experimentation, feature-flag rollouts.
Education
University of Washington
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering
2023
The University of Electro-Communications
Master Exchange Program, Informatics and Computer Engineering
2018 — 2019
Tamkang University
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Robotics)
2016 — 2019
Tamkang University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2012 — 2016
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