Mark Chen

Work Experience

SWE Intern at Google (3x, Summers of 2022, 23, 24)

Data Pipeline & Fine-Tuning ML for Content Recommendations, (Incoming) Summer 2024

Over-the-Top (OTT) Platform Service, Summer 2023

• Wrote end-to-end Digital Video Recorder (DVR) testing system for Over-the-Top streaming services. The test system is fully automated, and, regularly, it samples recordable entities and goes through the processing of recording them on various devices to test their playabilities on these device types. This test system makes sure that DVR processing bugs are caught in hours, reduced from days.

YouTube Commerce Payments Backend, Summer 2022

• Wrote RPC server features to payments team backend to list and fulfill non-recurring plans for YouTube (non-recurring items are like stickers, etc, or even subscriptions but only once for current period in some countries).

Nantucket (Summer 2021), ZhenFund (Spring 2021), K2VC (Fall 2020), Ivy Capital (Summer 2020)

Gap year from 2020-2021 before college and worked on tech-focused, early-stage investments.

In summer 2021, I worked with Nantucket and learned about portfolio management, risk management, asset allocation, etc. Wrote a JavaScript program for Nantucket to visualize liquidity schedule in real time.

Before summer 2021, I worked with ZhenFund, K2VC, and Ivy Capital and did research in markets and products related to SaaS model, social media, cross-border e-commerce, fast fashion commerce, etc. Wrote a Python program for project scouting on public Internet.