Guilin Chen

Guilin Chen is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Niantic, Inc. since December 2021, bringing extensive experience in software engineering from previous roles at notable companies. Prior to Niantic, Guilin served as Tech Lead Manager at Instagram from March 2018 to January 2020, focusing on efficiency, and worked as a Software Engineer at Facebook from June 2011 to March 2018, contributing to mobile performance and site efficiency. Earlier experience includes a Software Engineer position at Google, where contributions involved search ads serving infrastructure and distributed system performance analysis from October 2006 to June 2011, as well as internships at Intel and Microsoft. Guilin Chen holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Penn State University, complemented by an educational background from Fudan University.