About

The engineer who understood the business first.

Judy Chen

For fifteen years I ran real business operations, the messy, human, money-on-the-line kind. Then I learned to build the software those operations were always missing.

I didn't start in engineering and try to understand the business later. I spent fifteen years inside manufacturing, finance, and logistics operations, watching good companies lose time and money in the gap between how they worked and the tools they'd been sold.

When I sit down with a customer now, I don't need the problem translated. I've been inside enough of these workflows to know where the friction is. I audit the process, find where it breaks, and build the fix: full-stack, tested, deployed, owned end to end.

I use Claude Code as a development partner. It shortens the time between understanding a problem and shipping the fix. It doesn't replace judgment about what to build or why. It lets me spend more time on exactly that.

What I'm after now: a forward-deployed or AI engineering role where being close to the customer's reality is the job.

What I work with.

Tools in service of the problem

Languages

  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • C#
  • SQL
  • Python

Frameworks & runtime

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind CSS

AI & automation

  • Claude Code workflows
  • Vision-model OCR
  • LLM integration
  • Deterministic engines

Data & platforms

  • PostgreSQL
  • Cloudflare
  • Epicor ERP
  • Git / CI-CD

Operations & domain

  • Business operations (15 yrs)
  • Manufacturing & ERP
  • Finance & wealth
  • Requirements discovery

How I work

  • Workflow auditing
  • Project management (PMP)
  • Solo, end-to-end delivery
  • Shipping to production

The path here.

Operations → engineering
2023 – present

Software Engineer

C.R. Laurence

Built a product configurator on a live Epicor ERP using C# business process methods, automating roughly 90% of custom manufacturing orders.

2026 – present

Full-Stack Engineer (Contract)

Belmont Home Staging

Designed and shipped a solo, end-to-end contract and operations platform: AI handwriting OCR, e-signatures, and a live revenue dashboard.

2018 – 2023

Client Relationship Manager

Logic Wealth

Managed client relationships at a registered investment advisory firm. Non-technical clients, real money on the line, no room to hide behind the complexity. The Series 65 came from this role.

2013 – 2018

Operations & Project Management

Mavlon Tech

Led cross-functional operations and projects, translating between the people doing the work and the systems meant to help them.

2009 – 2013

Operations

Gadspot

Early operations and logistics work, where I first saw, up close, how much money lives in the gap between a workflow and its tooling.

Education & credentials.

Education
B.S. Computer Science
Cal Poly Pomona
Certification
PMP
Project Management Professional
License
Series 65
Investment Adviser Representative