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Maya Chen
Senior Staff Software Engineer
maya.chen@hey.com | +1 (415) 555-0188 | San Francisco, CA | mayachen.dev
Career Objective
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.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
2011 - 2015
B.S. Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA
GPA 3.9 · Dean's List · Concentration in Systems
Projects
pgwatch - Open-source Postgres observability. 4.2k stars, used in production at three Series B startups.
ratelimit-rs - Sliding-window rate limiter in Rust. Adopted at Stripe and Vercel.
tinysearch - Single-binary search engine for static sites. <500KB, 90 LOC of Rust.
Experience
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Mar 2022 - Present
- 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.
Staff Software Engineer at Figma
Jul 2019 - Feb 2022
- 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%.
Senior Software Engineer at Plaid
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
- 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.
Skills
TypeScriptGoRustPythonSQLPostgresKafkagRPCKubernetesTerraformDistributed systemsEvent sourcingPayments
Languages & Links
English - Native
Mandarin - Fluent
Japanese - Conversational
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