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Molly Chen

Seeking Software Engineering Roles

About Me

Hello there!

I'm an ex-Microsoft software engineer, now working as a product manager at Octave, building tools for therapists to deliver premium, effective, and accessible mental healthcare.

I'm looking to return to the engineering side of things and spend more of my career building! My overarching career goal is to leverage technology to help others live their best lives.

Education

Duke University

Specs:
BS in Computer Science, Minor in Psychology

Tech stuff:
Duke Technology Scholars, Rewriting the Code, HackDuke

Cool projects:
Zingo, Ethical Tech, Lend a Hand, Graducate, MemeMatch, Translate Transit

Experiences

Octave

Product Manager

Leading a remote-first team of 10 engineers as one of two product managers on the therapist experience team. Streamlined developer efficiency by shipping on average 75 story points per sprint. Led daily office hours to collaborate with developers.

Microsoft

Technical Program Manager II

Orchestrating data ingestion platforms to enable the $50B Azure business to transact commercial offerings via the Commercial Marketplace, representing a 500%+ growth in Marketplace adoption from FY21-FY23. Leading cross-functional teams of 50+ members to orchestrate data ingestion for Azure products into Commerce.

Matcha

Technical Lead

Provided product strategy and technical consulting for a 15-person startup in the mental health space. Created and executed product roadmap for a relationship-based AI-powered algorithm to match clients with therapists. Led the engineering, design, and product teams to launch MVP website, securing $0.25M in seed funding.

Microsoft

Software Engineer II

Service owner for 2 big-data ingestion services that manage $4B+ in first-party commercial product revenue.

Skills

  • Languages: C#, Java, JavaScript
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure, Heroku
  • Frontend: Angular, Vue
  • Microservices: Docker, Helm
  • Query: SQL, Kusto
  • Script: PowerShell, UNIX
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Stakeholder management
  • Agile methodologies
  • Internal tools, B2B, B2C