Software engineer · Wrangle · Stanford CS

James Chen

From pixels to Postgres, I build the whole product.

Full-stack engineer at Wrangle, an AI recruiting startup in San Francisco. Studying computer science at Stanford, on leave. Built Preflop end to end.

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Step inside

~ $ grep -i "about me" ./james

1 match: who I am, what I’m building, what’s next

Run — open the About page

Work

Selected work

Preflop / Settle up

Personal

Preflop

A poker settlement web app I built end to end.

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Classifier / Output

NLP / ML

Text classification at scale

Classifying text across large datasets.

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Sourcing / Pipeline

Software Engineer

Wrangle

Full-stack engineering on an AI-powered recruiting and talent-sourcing platform.

Interface sketches are illustrative.

Poker

Live poker results

Every session I play, logged and charted: profit over time, hourly rate, and results by stake and venue.

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Total profit: -$160
Per hour: -$1/hr
Sessions: 49

Updated Oct 4, 2026 · 258.5 hours · sample data

System

Built from a small system

Three typefaces, five colors, one fluid type scale. Every text and chart color is checked for contrast in light and dark: 4.5:1 for text, 3:1 for chart marks and focus rings.

Instrument SerifDisplay: page and section titles
GeistInterface and body text
Geist MonoLabels, data, terminal

PaperPage background
InkText
CanvasDesign surfaces
BlueLinks, selection, gains
OrangeLosses

Now

What I’m up to

Building recruiting tools at Wrangle.
On leave from Stanford CS.
Logging live poker sessions (see Poker).

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