Hello! I'm Emily Chen

I'm a senior studying computer science at Barnard College of Columbia University, concentrating in Applications. Outside of classes, I love reading (and giving book recommendations!), and skateboarding. In the last few years, I've also had a lot of fun as a chess coach for students around NYC and as the Arts & Culture Editor at the Columbia Daily Spectator.

This past summer, I was a software engineering intern at Google, working on Workspace Platform in Sunnyvale, California. Here, I worked on a backend project, developing and implementing a new algorithm feature to improve latency in our indexing API. I learned a lot about SQL, distributed databases, and have further developed my skills in Java beyond what I have learned in school. More details about my experiences can be found on my Resume!

Currently, I've also been challenging myself to learn more about these technologies such as SQL, APIs, and Typescript, through building projects from scratch, and you can check out some of these personal projects below!

Personal Projects

Resource Connect: Service for mutual aid organizations

This project was completed with a group as a part of my Advanced Software Engineering class during the Fall semester of 2024.

While brainstorming for ideas, hurricanes had recently torn through Florida, and we knew casese where ambulances would arrive at hospitals only for the emergency rooms to be full and overwhelmed.

We develeoped this service such that organizations such as hospitals, food banks, and homeless shelters, may share resource availability with the public. This way, clients looking for specific resources may search and find places specifically recommended for them depending on resource and location.

Tools: Java, React, Google Maps API, SQL, GCloud

BookTrivia: Discord Bot

Discord bot that responds to the message "bookworm" using. Questions vary between multiple choice and true/false types! Developed using Java, the Javacord API, and an online trivia database.

Tools: Java, Javacord API, Git, Discord

EcoLiving: Truth or Dare? ios App to build eco-friendly habits

Want to live a more sustainable life without uprooting all of your routines? Welcome to EcoLiving, a game that helps you build more eco-friendly habits on a daily basis! Start your days with a quick eco-truth or sustainability-dare and challenge yourself to complete a dare per a day!

Tools: Swift, Xcode, Figma

SweetSuite: Java roommate bill management (in progress)

Java system that allows roommates to manage and split common costs, tracking who one owes money to, for what item, and how much. For example, if one person covers groceries for the suite, and another person covers utilities, the program will track how much each roommate owes these two individually. Working on saving a Suite's data with JDBA and MySQL to be able to reaccessed at a latter date.

Tools: Java, MySQL