Product Engineer
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Software engineer blending statistics, cloud, and product craft.

Seattle-based engineer with experience across backend services, data products, and mobile apps. I like turning messy datasets into clear experiences and shipping tools that stay fast at scale.

Previously Groupon (Relevance API)
Early-impact contributor · Data-minded builder

Selected Projects

DailyBlocks (dailyblocks.app)

iOS app (1.5k+ downloads) that helps users with ADHD combat procrastination via productivity scoring and AI-generated insights.

React Native JavaScript SQLite AWS Lambda

exitopps.fyi

Career planning platform providing actionable insights for software engineers using employment datasets from top tech companies.

Django Python Data scraping
Case study coming soon →

FMScouter

Interactive analytics and visualization platform evaluating player roles and development trajectories for young soccer players.

Python Tableau Data Viz

3&D

NBA player valuation dashboard comparing statistics from 2000–2016 using advanced statistical models.

Python Django Analytics

Experience

Software Engineer · Groupon — Relevance API

Jun 2021 — Oct 2022 · Seattle, WA

  • Migrated microservices from on-premise to cloud hosts to improve scaling at peak traffic and reduce costs off-peak.
  • Designed experimentation platform to test deal suggestion logic and boost relevance using user preference signals.
  • Cut pager incidents by 30% by standardizing alerts and documentation; mentored new hires and built onboarding resources.

R&D Intern · Sandia National Laboratories

Jun 2019 — May 2020 · Albuquerque, NM

  • Built a C# data visualization app for simulation analysis and custom reporting.
  • Created data cleanup tools and benchmarking utilities to speed analysis workflows.

Skills

Java Python JavaScript C# C++ AWS Lambda Kubernetes Docker Azure Functions SQL Server PostgreSQL NoSQL ElasticSearch Redis Kafka Airflow React Native Node.js Django Flask Jenkins Git Agile/Scrum

Highlights

BS in Statistics & Computer Science, UIUC (accelerated 3-year graduation; Dean’s List; James Scholar honors). Built data-driven products across e-commerce, analytics, and productivity.

Contact

Drop a line if you want to talk about roles, collaborations, or side projects. albertshen31@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/albert-w-shen github.com/AlbertShen31