Matt Chen

Engineering Lead - Product / Platform

Role: Senior Engineering Manager at SoFi
Location: Seattle, WA, US
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

About Matt Chen

20+ years of software engineering experience across mobile, web, and cloud domains. Deeply technical leader with hands-on architectural expertise in building highly reliable, high-volume infrastructure layers and APIs utilizing microservices, Kafka, and gRPC.• 10+ years of engineering management. Currently directing a global engineering organization, with a proven track record of managing subordinate engineering managers and senior ICs across multiple squads to deliver mission-critical, enterprise-scale software.• Platform Architect & AI Enabler. Architected modular, unified platforms with seamless APIs. Extensive experience bridging platform infrastructure with production AI, previously leading the AWS Insights team to deliver scalable anomaly detection and forecasting.• Champion of Developer Velocity & Operational Rigor. Excel at reducing tooling fragmentation, establishing CI/CD consumption models, and introducing automated runbooks and observability. Actively serve as a cross-organizational Incident Commander for company-level Sev-1 events, enforcing strict SLAs and governance.

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager
SoFi
Aug 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Manage the Servicing Platform organization, comprising multiple squads dedicated to enhancing the post-origination customer experience. This includes areas such as servicing experience, payment processing, loan lifecycle management, reporting & integration across various product lines includes Personal Loans, Student Loans, and Credit Cards.

Education

Nankai University
Bachelor of Communication Engineering, Information Technology
2000 — 2004

Skills

Core Animation
Cocoa
Block
Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
Box2d
Git
C++
Swift
Java
Databases
Team Leadership
Release Management
Objective-C
Oop
Interface Builder
Tcp/Ip
Kanban
Javascript
Grand Central Dispatch (Gcd)
Team Management
Ios
Sqlite
Digital Strategy
Code Coverage
Xml
Agile Methodologies
User Experience
Database
Mobile Applications
Cocoa Touch
Android Sdk
Jquery
Web Services
Xcode
User Interface Design
C
Application Architecture
Subversion
Mobile Devices
Unit Testing

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