Daniel Wei Chen
I'm Daniel Wei Chen, a full-stack engineer with 12+ years of experience delivering scalable, user-centric web products and AI-powered applications.
About
I’m Daniel Wei Chen, a full-stack engineer with 12+ years of experience delivering scalable, user-centric web products and AI-powered applications. I thrive at the intersection of clean code, robust architecture, and great UX, building secure cloud-native systems for finance, startups, and enterprises worldwide. My passion is crafting intuitive, accessible, and performant applications while balancing product thinking with technical excellence.
Beyond delivery, I bring product thinking to teams—mentoring engineers, improving processes, and bridging business with engineering to deliver lasting value. I’m currently exploring my entrepreneurial side, building Clink, a networking tool that makes in-person connections seamless.
- 11 years' experience
- Joined March 2026
Industry experience
- Financial Services
- Software & Internet
- Media & Entertainment
- Professional Services
- Other
Work experience· 5 roles
Led an IT hardening initiative modernizing the architecture for collecting and delivering client-side analytics—serving over 150 teams across the company and subsidiaries—by migrating to Microsoft Azure, implementing robust CI/CD pipelines, and introducing thorough testing practices. Served as Technical Product Owner to bridge business and IT, defining roadmaps, managing backlogs, conducting risk assessments, and collaborating with stakeholders at all levels. Automated manual processes to ensure regulatory privacy compliance and improve data quality, boosting analytics testing efficiency by 80%. Transformed the architecture to reduce cross-team dependencies, cultivating greater autonomy and agility within the value cluster. Mentored front-end developers and technical web analysts on front-end technologies and best practices.
Architected Next.js and React 18 guest-facing apps integrated with Node.js and Python APIs, Golang, and .NET Core, powering the World of Hyatt digital ecosystem across 1,000+ properties. Implemented secure APIs (OAuth 2.0 + Azure B2C). Built LLM-powered chatbots and recommendation engines, reducing support tickets and boosting self-service adoption. Optimized performance with code-splitting, lazy loading, and bundle optimization. Enabled data-driven hospitality through ETL pipelines (Airflow, Kafka, Pandas) and exposed APIs (REST/GraphQL) for bookings and loyalty insights. Led CI/CD pipelines with zero-downtime blue-green releases to AWS ECS/EKS and mentored a team of engineers.
Developed SPA micro frontends and reusable web components serving a large user base using Microsoft Azure, React, Vue.js, Jest, TestCafe and LitElement. Migrated Internet Banking from on-prem to Azure, creating high-performance microservices and CI/CD automation tools in Golang. Implemented comprehensive monitoring, proactive alerting, analytics, and enterprise-grade security, reducing infrastructure costs and increasing scalability. Executed on-call incident response to ensure uninterrupted service delivery.
Education
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