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Chen Caijie

Software Engineer @ The Trade Desk

Full-stack engineer with ~4 years building TTD's next-generation media buying platform (Kokai). Primary contributor across React/TypeScript frontend and C#/.NET backend, shipping features used daily by advertisers at scale.

Chen Caijie

Experience

The Trade Desk

Software Engineer II Aug 2022 – Present

Promoted Mid 2023 · Singapore

  • Led full-stack implementation of the Creative Library Tile (Kokai), creating end-to-end functionality including backend REST API and complete React/TypeScript frontend with list views, bulk operations, search, and pagination.
  • Spearheaded the Creative Troubleshooting System, a full-stack GraphQL solution that surfaced bid-blocking issues for advertisers, leading to a 20% reduction in manual customer support tickets.
  • Engineered the Creative Assignment Workbench, significantly enhancing advertiser efficiency by reducing clicks for a typical assignment flow by 80%.
  • Led development of Campaign Settings Snapshot with 2 junior engineers, providing shortcuts to quick campaign configuration options with 6,500+ daily clicks.
  • Contributed to team growth by formally mentoring new hire and intern engineers on full-stack development best practices and platform architecture.

Shopee

Front-end Software Engineer Jul 2021 – Aug 2022

Singapore

  • Reduced average navigation task time by 50% by collaborating with designers to upgrade the site navigation UX on Shopee's internal landing page.
  • Developed a no-code configuration tool for business operators, enabling quick customisation, scheduling, and configuration of campaign landing sites.
Earlier: Coord (New York City, 2019–2020), Trabble (Singapore, 2020)

National University of Singapore

B.Comp in Computer Science (Honours) · Distinction (4.43/5) 2021

Skills

Languages

TypeScript C# Java Python Go SQL

Frontend

React GraphQL Tailwind CSS

Backend

.NET REST APIs SQL Server

Practices

System Design CI/CD Testing Agile