Howard Chen

Engineering VC @ SignalFire

Former Engineer @ Groupon, Breadcrumb, and Salesforce

Computer Science @ UC Berkeley

Former Instructor of the Ruby on Rails Decal @ UC Berkeley

Former Student Instructor for UC Berkeley's Data Science Course

Resume (updated 2016)

Notes

Previous Projects

Project Homeless Connect

I was a Project Leader for Cal Blueprint where I led a team of four other developers to build an Android application for the nonprofit Project Homeless Connect that would replace their current paper system. This app provides the nonprofit with more security with confidential information and frees up volunteers to do more work at their events.

Rails Decal

I was the instructor for the Rails Decal, a course at UC Berkeley that teaches the Ruby on Rails framework and general web development fundamentals to students. I created assignments, projects, graded, and managed a team of TA's. I also worked on the application, assignment submission, checkin, and grading portal.

Blueprint

Blueprint connects college engineering talent with local non-profits. I filled various roles across 3 years as President, a Project Leader, and developer. I worked on various Ruby on Rails and Android projects.

Open Food Finder

Open Food Finder is an open source Android Application that allows users to post up food donations and claim them. I mainly worked on creating the assets, layouts, views for User sessions, and integrating the Facebook SDK.

Open Music Competition

Open Music Competition is an open source Rails Web App that students to sign up and pay for music competitions. I created the account system, admin capabilities, sessions, and JSON API endpoints.

Safer City

Won second place in a Hackathon with a web app that would route users from point A to B while avoiding areas that have had reports of sexual assault.