About

Ching-Wei Chen is a highly experienced Product Area Engineering Lead at Spotify, with over 21 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. In his current role, he manages, mentors, and grows Engineering Managers and Engineers across multiple squads responsible for Home screen personalization. He is also accountable for driving technical decisions and ensuring delivery and organizational health. Prior to his current role, Ching-Wei served as Chapter Lead, Machine Learning at Spotify, where he led a team of Machine Learning engineers in developing personalized recommendation technologies and product features such as Discover Weekly, Daily Mix, and Home screen personalization. He also worked as an Engineering Manager, Content ID at SoundCloud, where he managed a full-stack feature team responsible for developing audio fingerprinting technologies and operating SoundCloud's copyright management tools and microservices infrastructure. Ching-Wei holds an MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Vision, Media Arts, and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BS degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has expertise in various technologies such as ML, Senior Software Engineering, Microservices, and Infra. Ching-Wei is a skilled leader with a proven track record of defining technology roadmaps, setting team objectives and metrics, and mentoring and developing teams to ensure they have the context and resources to reach individual and team goals. He is passionate about leveraging technology to drive innovation and improve the user experience.