HELLO, IM

CODY CHEN

Junior at USC✌️studying CS and Business. Passionate about fostering connection between people through product, community, and technology. Love stories that stick, Jasmine tea, and YouTube. Currently: watching The Blacklist, writing code (this website), and listening to Dominic Fike.

Experience

[1] Intuit
[2] Aro
[3] Whatnot
[4] Northrop Grumman

Extracurriculars

[1] LavaLab
[2] Anthropic
[3] TroyLabs
[4] APASA

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EXPERIENCE

Intuit Product Management Intern

2025

Product Tech Professional

Internship with Payments Platform Team, building out next generation payment rail experiences and integrations.

The payments platform is a big part of how money moves through Intuit's products — including processing payments reliably and securely (credit cards, bank transfers, digital wallets), building developer tools and APIs, fraud protection, settlements, reconciliation, and compliance monitoring.

Aro Co-Founder
Product Manager

2024

Product Tech Leadership Professional

Aro is a no-code typesetting solution, simplifying complex document creation.

Leveraging no-code functionality, Aro redesigns the way users in research, academia, and industry create professionally formatted documents ranging from textbooks to sheet music.

The current typesetting solution, coding out documents through LaTeX (think HTML & CSS but for writing), is unapproachable, unintuitive, and full of friction. Through Aro, we empower users to easily collaborate on and create complex documents by removing technical barriers and simplifying typesetting.

Whatnot Growth

2024

Product Tech Community Professional

Full-time contractor on Whatnot's Growth, Partnerships, and Go-To-Market team, primarily launching the product in the United Kingdom.

I led go-to-market strategy, user acquisition & partnerships, marketing & growth, and data analytics.

Whatnot (YC W20) is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Based out of LA, the company blends community, shopping, and entertainment into a single experience.

Northrop Grumman Business Management Intern

2023

Product Tech Professional

Internship with Northrop Grumman's Space Systems BU in Redondo Beach.

At Northrop, I played a data-heavy role, contributing project management, data analytics & visualization, predictive financial modeling, and risk & profitability analysis.

EXTRACURRICULARS

LavaLab Vice President
Prev. Director of Community, Product Manager

2024-2025

Product Tech Leadership Community

USC's student-run startup incubator. Every semester, LavaLab takes a cohort of 28 students composed of product managers, developers, and designers to build tomorrow’s startups, today.

We walk all our cohorts through a curriculum built on YC and Thiel’s Zero to One ideology — augmented by experience from USC's top founders.

As VP, I lead an 11-person Executive Board driving strategy, execution, and operations for 500+ members and alumni.

Anthropic Claude Ambassador

2025

Product Tech Leadership Community

Inaugural cohort of Anthropic's Claude Ambassador program, representing USC.

Shape growth strategy with product and GTM teams using user insights to scale Claude adoption and guide roadmap.

TroyLabs Head of IGNITE
Prev. Product Manager, Financial Analyst

2023-2024

Product Tech Leadership Community

TroyLabs is USC's student-run startup accelerator.

As Head of IGNITE, I partnered with leaders like the Riot Games founder to organize educational events that support 1,000+ students and foster USC's entrepreneurial community.

APASA Recruitment Director
Prev. Intern

2022-2024

Leadership Community

USC APASA is a programming branch of Undergraduate Student Government (USG), serving Asian Pacific Islander Desi American students.

ABOUT

🎓 Education

I’m a junior at the University of Southern California, pursuing a degree in Computer Science and Business Administration.

🧠 Interests

I’m deeply interested in the intersection of technology, storytelling, and human behavior, particularly how digital products can foster connection, creativity, and clarity.

💼 Approach to Work

My work is driven by a strong attention to detail, a bias toward action, and a commitment to understanding the “why” behind user needs. I enjoy translating abstract ideas into tangible, user-centered solutions, and I value collaboration across disciplines to bring those ideas to life.

🛠 Technology and Skills

I bring a hybrid background in software engineering and product management, with experience across both technical development and strategic product work.