Dr. Sarah Chen
Professorsarah.chen@harvard.edu|+1 617 555 0123|Cambridge, MA
Professional Summary
Associate Professor of Economics. 32 publications. NBER faculty research fellow. Known for clear communication, ownership, and shipping measurable outcomes. Combines strong software fundamentals with cross-functional collaboration and a bias for execution.Experience
Associate Professor of Economics
Harvard University · Cambridge
• Advises 6 PhD students; secured $2.4M in NSF grants
• Named Guggenheim Fellow 2023
• Improved CI cycle time from 39m to 13m
• Owned critical services at Harvard University; improved p95 latency by 59%
Software Engineer
Frontier Institute · Bengaluru, India
• Led migration of 3 services to modern stack with zero downtime
• Mentored 3 engineers; 3 promoted within a year
• Reduced production incidents 31% via better observability and runbooks
• Partnered with product to ship 2 high-impact features used by 36k users
Skills
Econometrics, Causal Inference, Stata, R, Python, Panel Data, LaTeX, Peer Review, TeachingProjects
Data Sync Pipeline (Harvard University)
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Platform Reliability Upgrade
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Customer Dashboard v2
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Data Sync Pipeline (Harvard University)
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Education
PhD, Economics
Stanford University
Stanford
Certifications
Guggenheim Fellow
NBER Faculty Research Fellow