Sarah Chen
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA · sarah.chen@hey.com · linkedin.com/in/sarahchen
Experience
Senior Software Engineer — Linear
2023 — Present- Led the migration of the issue search index to Typesense, cutting p95 query latency from 480ms to 90ms.
- Designed the realtime sync protocol now serving 12M concurrent edits per day.
Software Engineer — Stripe
2019 — 2023- Owned the Connect payouts ledger; shipped batch settlement that reduced reconciliation time by 71%.
- Mentored four engineers through the L4 → L5 promotion process.
Education
B.S. Computer Science — UC Berkeley
2015 — 2019