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Maya Chen
Senior Staff Software Engineer
maya.chen@hey.com | +1 (415) 555-0188 | San Francisco, CA | mayachen.dev
Research Profile
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
B.S. Computer Science
2011 - 2015
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
GPA 3.9 · Dean's List · Concentration in Systems
Academic & Professional Appointments
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Mar 2022 - Present
Stripe, South San Francisco
- 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
Jul 2019 - Feb 2022
Figma, San Francisco
- 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
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
Plaid, San Francisco
- 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.
Software Engineer
Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
Square, San Francisco
- Cash App core ledger. On-call for the money-movement pager rotation.
Selected Publications & 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.
Honors, Certifications & Skills
Stripe Engineering Excellence (2024)
ICPC North America Regional Finalist (2014)
AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Amazon Web Services (2023)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator, CNCF (2021)
TypeScript | Go | Rust | Python | SQL | Postgres | Kafka | gRPC | Kubernetes | Terraform | Distributed systems | Event sourcing