Maya Chen
maya.chen@hey.com | +1 (415) 555-0188 | San Francisco, CA | mayachen.dev
Summary
Distributed-systems engineer with 9 years building payments and developer infrastructure at scale. I lead small teams to ship reliable products — Stripe Connect's reconciliation pipeline, Figma's multiplayer presence layer. Strong opinions, weakly held.
Professional Experience
Stripe, South San FranciscoMar 2022 – Present
Senior Staff Software Engineer
- Tech lead for Connect Reconciliation. Migrated 4PB of ledger data off MySQL onto an in-house columnar store; cut nightly close from 6h to 22m.
- Designed an idempotency framework now used by ~140 services across the company.
- Mentored 7 engineers; sponsored 3 promotions and one transfer into infra.
Figma, San FranciscoJul 2019 – Feb 2022
Staff Software Engineer
- Built the multiplayer presence layer that powers cursors, selection sync, and follow mode. Sub-50ms p99 across 8 regions.
- Rewrote the diff engine on the WASM client; cut merge-conflict time-to-resolution by 71%.
Plaid, San FranciscoAug 2017 – Jun 2019
Senior Software Engineer
- Owned ACH risk scoring end-to-end. Reduced fraud loss by 38% in 12 months without changing approval rate.
- Shipped the first version of Plaid Signal, now a flagship product.
Square, San FranciscoJun 2015 – Jul 2017
Software Engineer
- Cash App core ledger. On-call for the money-movement pager rotation.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University — B.S. Computer Science. GPA 3.9 · Dean's List · Concentration in Systems2011–2015
Skills
Languages: TypeScript, Go, Rust, Python, SQL
Infrastructure: Postgres, Kafka, gRPC, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS
Domains: Distributed systems, Event sourcing, Payments, Observability
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Professional — Amazon Web Services, 2023
Certified Kubernetes Administrator — CNCF, 2021