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Molly Chen

Technical Product Manager

About Me

Hello there!

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

I'm an engineer at heart and a product manager by experience. 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

Experiences

Octave

Product Manager
  • Leading a remote-first team of 10 engineers as the only product manager on the therapist experience team.
  • Conducted feasibility assessments of 5+ agentic AI and RPA platforms to integrate with Octave’s SOAs powering revenue cycle management (RCM), client, and provider data, reviewing API design, performance limits, and architectural compatibility.
  • Launched provider database feeding provider biographies to client booking pages (150K monthly visits), broke up a monolithic service, integrated business logic into schema, and served consumers’ requests for provider data at 99.9% availability.

Microsoft

Technical Program Manager II
  • Orchestrating data ingestion platforms to enable the $50B Azure business to transact commercial offerings via the Commercial Marketplace.
  • Contributed to 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.
  • Slashed most-used page load time by 75% by optimizing C# .NET query performance and adding 10 new alerts in Azure Application Insights to detect performance anomalies.
  • Drove cross-collaboration with Shanghai team to migrate all price-publishing services from Azure Cloud Services to Azure Kubernetes in 3 months. Created documentation to guide the team through Docker and YML setup, deployment, and testing.

Skills

  • Languages: C#, Python, Java, TypeScript
  • Frameworks: Angular, Vue
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure, Heroku
  • Tools: Copilot, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ARM, YAML
  • Integrations: RPA, Agentic AI, CRM, FHIR, HIPAA
  • Scripting: PowerShell, Bash
  • Data: SQL, Kusto, PostgreSQL, S3, Cosmos
  • Analytics: Tableau, Iterable, Mixpanel
  • Product: Figma, Miro, Confluence, Shortcut
  • Industries: Healthcare, Big Tech, Startups (Series A-C), B2B, B2C, Legal
  • Leadership: Cross-functional team leadership, stakeholder management