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Te-Chih Annie Chen

Seattle,WA

Summary

Te-Chih Annie Chen is a full-stack software engineer with six years of experience in developing user-facing features across Microsoft Edge and Windows. Proficient in Python, TypeScript, and React, with consistent results to deliver UI optimizations, new user experiences, and browser integrations that improve engagement, and drive product adoption. Quick learner with a strong ability to adapt, and resolve challenges effectively. Authorized to work in the United States (Permanent Resident).

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer II

Microsoft
Redmond, Washington
06.2019 - 07.2025

Microsoft Edge Browser

  • Created UI components to surface Edge browsing history and top sites within the Windows Search Box, which is a web application that serves as an entry point to Bing.com on the Windows desktop.
  • Built data pipelines to retrieve and process Edge browsing data from the Windows Indexer to enable real-time, personalized suggestions.
  • Implemented and experimented with the Edge address bar placeholder text to increase user engagement with Bing as the default search engine.
  • Developed toast notifications and desktop dialogs to encourage users to set Edge as their default browser.
  • Integrated Iris Studio assets (strings and images) into the notification's UI for A/B testing in both production and staging environments.

Microsoft Windows 11

  • Shipped a simplified and optimized onboarding experience for new and existing users, and it resulted in a 15% increase in user engagement.
  • Updated Windows Search Box UI with rounded corners and transparent backgrounds to align with Windows 11's fluent design standards.

Microsoft Windows 10

  • Simplified and improved messaging in the Windows 10 intro experience to boost users' comprehension and engagement.
  • Implemented Dark Mode for the Windows Search Box to ensure consistency with the system-wide dark theme.
  • Authored and scheduled scope-based scripts to collect Windows Search Box client-side errors hourly and daily, to improve observability and incident response.

Software Engineering Intern

MediaTek (MTK)
Hsinchu, Taiwan
07.2016 - 08.2016
  • Implemented 'show scan table' CLI (Command Line Interface) command to display information of scanned WAP (Wireless Access Point) for MTK's IOT development board.
  • Research wireless network protocol 802.11r and Wi-Fi roaming sniffer log in multi-channels.

Education

M.S. - Computer Science

University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
03.2019

B.S. - Computer Science

National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)
Hsinchu, Taiwan
06.2017

Skills

Languages – Python, TypeScript (Proficient); JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, MATLAB,

Java, C, C#, C, PHP, Verilog, MI PS and Arm assembly language (Prior Experience);

Frameworks and Tools – React; Git; VS Code, Visual Studio; VS Remote Debugger, Microsoft Edge

DevTools Preview; Fiddler, Wireshark; Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu);

Projects

Power and Thermal Management Evaluation for Multi-core Processor

  • Managed computation intensive jobs and memory access intensive jobs through leveraging APIs that are related to the scheduler of Linux kernel.
  • Improved multi-core processor performance by 10% through power and thermal optimization.

Timeline

Software Engineer II

Microsoft
06.2019 - 07.2025

Software Engineering Intern

MediaTek (MTK)
07.2016 - 08.2016

M.S. - Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

B.S. - Computer Science

National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)
Te-Chih Annie Chen